Christopher DeWolf on the thorny issue of pedestrianizing city streets.
Looking to the recent experiment of Pedestrian Sunday Kensington in Toronto's congested Kensington Market neighbourhood, Christopher DeWolf explores why Montreal might pursue a similar idea on its busy Mont Royal Avenue.
"In the 1960s, the Danish capital turned its main street into a pedestrian thoroughfare. Since then, it has developed a comprehensive network of both pedestrian-only streets and pedestrian-priority streets (walkers and cyclists have right-of-way but cars are allowed to proceed slowly), bolstered by a bicycle program that has expanded the number of bike lanes and allows people to borrow bikes from various racks around the city for a small deposit. The number of cars in Copenhagen has remained steady for the past twenty-five years. Copenhagens gradual prioritization of pedestrians and cyclists is what Avenue Verte seeks for Montreal."
Thanks to Phillip Todd
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