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On Wednesday, April 1, 2015 at 9:23:07 AM UTC+1, Nightjar wrote:
On 01/04/2015 08:11, wrote:
On Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 10:57:39 PM UTC+1, Nightjar wrote:
On 31/03/2015 21:00, Capitol wrote:
Nightjar cpb@ wrote:

They also work well if run through pedestrianised areas, both keeping
them separate from other traffic and putting them close to where people
want them.

Pedestrianised areas are bad news for local town centre shops (and
locally for small shopping areas). A number of US towns have
depedestianised the town centre as no one would go there.

Which is why you need public transport bringing people into them.


A whole lot of people arent into the time waste of public transport


If the area is pedestrianised, the only other option is walking.


there are a couple more options
1. don't pedestrianise
2. have available or rentable individual transport units of any of several sorts


This is
the sort of area I had in mind:

http://goo.gl/maps/PujcD

Unfortunately they seem to have photographed that at night, during a power cut & new moon.


NT