http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/08/10/european-vacation/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:49:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/08/10/european-vacation/comment-page-1/#comment-1143 Jon Orcutt Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:29:04 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/08/10/european-vacation/#comment-1143 They don't have huge trucks in Euro central cities because they aren't allowed, at least during the day and evening, and they enforce the laws there. Stuff coming into the center has to be off-loaded to smaller trucks. Rational management on behalf of quality of life and safety -- imagine that! They don't have huge trucks in Euro central cities because they aren't allowed, at least during the day and evening, and they enforce the laws there. Stuff coming into the center has to be off-loaded to smaller trucks. Rational management on behalf of quality of life and safety -- imagine that!

]]> http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/08/10/european-vacation/comment-page-1/#comment-1137 MCG Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:40:31 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/08/10/european-vacation/#comment-1137 Note that in central Paris traffic is smaller as well as lighter than here. I have never seen an 18-wheeler in central Paris. Nor, for that matter, have I seen an SUV. There are buses, garbage trucks, and police vans, but even they look smaller than ours, and they are the exceptions. The widest streets have signs on the traffic-light standards saying: Cross in two stages. Taken all together, these facts mean that crossing the street in Paris is not a death-defying dash. Note that in central Paris traffic is smaller as well as lighter than here. I have never seen an 18-wheeler in central Paris. Nor, for that matter, have I seen an SUV. There are buses, garbage trucks, and police vans, but even they look smaller than ours, and they are the exceptions. The widest streets have signs on the traffic-light standards saying: Cross in two stages. Taken all together, these facts mean that crossing the street in Paris is not a death-defying dash.

]]> http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/08/10/european-vacation/comment-page-1/#comment-1135 Glenn Fri, 11 Aug 2006 13:48:11 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/08/10/european-vacation/#comment-1135 One thing I love about a street designed like this is that it really discourages double parking or pick-ups and drop offs. See how on the far right lane, there is room for a car, but certainly not two. It does encourage cars to pick-up and drop off passengers or trucks to make deliveries on side streets which get less through traffic. One thing I love about a street designed like this is that it really discourages double parking or pick-ups and drop offs. See how on the far right lane, there is room for a car, but certainly not two. It does encourage cars to pick-up and drop off passengers or trucks to make deliveries on side streets which get less through traffic.

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