The Road / Street Dilemna
If roads are about "getting there" and streets are about "being there", can Sydney's busiest road become a street?
Elizabeth Farrelly looks at the suggestions for redeveloping Parramatta Road (Sydneys busiest road) and the reality that high street ambience and retail cant work along a major arterial route that doesnt offer car parking and suffers from the noise and grime of up to 87,000 cars per day. She explains that the proposal of higher density nodes along a transit route with cars redirected along an extension to the existing motorway would require money, political will and political courage.
Thanks to Charlotte Fitzgerald
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Published on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 in
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