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Traffic Calmed

Posted by: Nate Berg

19 March 2008 - 2:00pm

This video from StreetFilm shows the extensive traffic calming efforts taken by one beach community in Australia.

"This city really is wonderful. Art, happiness, liveliness, and good walking everywhere (between daily runs and walking I am averaging about 10 miles per day). The incredible thing is the TRAFFIC CALMING. Unless you are on a real highway no matter where you go there is inventive and unique traffic calming. If you are on a main road, ANYWHERE you turn off you hit textured crosswalks, gateways, speed bumps, just really the way it should be."

Full Story: StreetFilm: Traffic Calming Done Right in Melbourne
Source: Streetsblog, March 17, 2008
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The areas where we have severe blight and indications of more blight to come are basically the same as they ever were. How in the world are we ever going to move our community development selves into an alternative future that thinks differently about the challenges we face in our cities and low-income suburban and rural communities?
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