No matter what you do, someone isn't going to like it.
Designate certain major streets as through roads. No bicycle lanes. No parking. No stopping. Designate other streets "no motorized vehicles except local deliveries". Basically pedestrian and bicycle zones with the occasional delivery truck (who has to get and display a pass in the windshield). Still others "local traffic only", parking allowed ... and to enforce "local traffic only", block off one end of it so that the street is a dead-end. This way the situation isn't dependent on cops being permanently stationed to see if someone is thru traffic.
If this gets more people walking and bicycling and taking public transit, that's the idea.
Many european cities have pedestrian-only zones with local deliveries allowed by commercial vehicles (who putter along slowly along with the pedestrians).
This model should be better for local businesses. Someone walking along a street is quite likely to see a cafe or ice cream shop or knickknacks shop and pop in for a look and maybe buy something. Someone driving past, if they have to find and pay for parking that isn't necessarily close by ... not so much.
Congestion charges (London UK) and low-emission-vehicle zones (Barcelona, among others) can be the sticks that go along with the carrots.
Here is the high-speed-rail station in Barcelona. Look at all the motorcycles parked across the street. There is parking for cars - but by North American standards, very little parking is available. You are expected to connect to local transit or take a taxi or walk to where you're going from here (which is what I did). Google Maps
Designate certain major streets as through roads. No bicycle lanes. No parking. No stopping. Designate other streets "no motorized vehicles except local deliveries". Basically pedestrian and bicycle zones with the occasional delivery truck (who has to get and display a pass in the windshield). Still others "local traffic only", parking allowed ... and to enforce "local traffic only", block off one end of it so that the street is a dead-end. This way the situation isn't dependent on cops being permanently stationed to see if someone is thru traffic.
If this gets more people walking and bicycling and taking public transit, that's the idea.
Many european cities have pedestrian-only zones with local deliveries allowed by commercial vehicles (who putter along slowly along with the pedestrians).
This model should be better for local businesses. Someone walking along a street is quite likely to see a cafe or ice cream shop or knickknacks shop and pop in for a look and maybe buy something. Someone driving past, if they have to find and pay for parking that isn't necessarily close by ... not so much.
Congestion charges (London UK) and low-emission-vehicle zones (Barcelona, among others) can be the sticks that go along with the carrots.
Here is the high-speed-rail station in Barcelona. Look at all the motorcycles parked across the street. There is parking for cars - but by North American standards, very little parking is available. You are expected to connect to local transit or take a taxi or walk to where you're going from here (which is what I did). Google Maps
