“Pedestrians will be given priority over parking spaces as part of a facelift for Praia do Carvoeiro,” starts a newspaper report on renovation plans for a village in Portugal.
“We want to make this an area of beauty for people and not cars,” a spokesman for the area told The Online Resident. Adds the article:
“Parking spaces [...]
Archive for April, 2008
‘Pedestrians will be given priority over parking spaces’
April 25, 2008Cheap energy, and community
April 22, 2008Cheap energy has had a profound impact on our communities, and I’m not talking about pollution/greenhouse/Earth Day issues. As many (including me) have written, designing our communities around the automobile has led to the pedestrian-hostile streetscapes that give us Rte. 9 aesthetic urban blight, and the need to drive our cars less than half a [...]
Suburban New York vs Boston Rail Service: Ours is worse in every way
April 4, 2008My parents live 3 miles farther away from Manhattan’s Penn Station than I do from Boston’s South Station, so comparing commuter rail service from each home is a reasonable endeavor. Of course, New York is a much larger city, so suburbs there are more densely populated 20 miles out than they are here. So, I [...]
