People Are Sharing The 50 Best Examples Of ‘Urban Planning’ They’ve Seen

So if I just do laps around the block past it below the speed limit...

We have this Australia too except its a green happy face or a red sad face.

Yesss I’ve waited for this reward not punishment!!

This was a PR campaign to lower speeds and start a debate about speeding (it worked to reducera speeds) and how to make it fun to do the right thing ("the fun theory, as they call it). There's no actual lottery from what I know. The campaign was awarded a diploma in 2011 at a Swedish marketing gala, Guldägget ('the Golden egg'). https://guldagget.se/bidrag/rolighetsstipendiethastighetslotteriet/

I wish we had that!

Brilliant safety measure for drunk people like me trying to find their way home in Australia.

Great idea. You can hardly see a pedestrian at the crossing at night here in the UK. So many crossings don't have a light shining above the path.

Hah. Most of the zebra crossings in rural France are almost invisible and not in any way highlighted, not like this or with street lighting. So French people often ignore them and cross the road wherever they want, and drivers may not always notice the crossing so care must be taken, unlike in neighbouring Switzerland where a pedestrian may cross without even looking fir oncoming traffic, so confident they are that their 'right of way' will be upheld.

Great idea.

This should be in EVERY country with pedestrian crossings

All that traffic has to go somewhere though.

Hey lake shore drive in Chicago....

The US is SO far behind on this. When the Interstate system was built in the 1950s and 60s, the planners (no racism here) DELIBERATELY put the highways through areas of cities that were mostly populated by people of color. It is truly disgusting. In the town I live near, the interstate was put through a thriving, working-class black neighborhood. there has been a proposal to tear down the section of the highway that is the worst offender. But the suburb NIMBYS have repeatedly blocked it in court. There have been numerous multi-million dollar studies, mostly backed by majority white suburbs, and the highway STILL stands.

They're only a mistake if they're not needed.

Toronto has a similar highway (Gardiner/QEW) right in front of the city waterfront. It's taking too much valuable space on lake shore, creating much noise and pollution, and it's cracking due to years of poor maintenance. I wish the city will do something to fix this issue.

In Oslo there's something similar. The apartments and outdoor space much better than what being built today.

Love this

Need more of this. Imagine if every apartment complex was set up this way 😮😍

Why not put the parking underground, though, so you don't have roads cluttered with all those cars?

Great idea!!!

FYI. The Netherlands is the country. Holland is a (actually 2, north and south) province

The. Netherlands. This country is called The Netherlands. Not Holland. Not just Amsterdam either. This didn't used to annoy me as much as it does now but why do people never get it right? Is it really so hard?

And London is cutting down its trees

1982 clothes looked better than the 2020 clothes.

Loved ridding my bike while in Italy. Stateside its a major challenge.

I think that was taken at the top of California Street. That was how I walked to work for many years. San Francisco is another fabulous walking city.

So beautifull image x3

I visited San Francisco a few years ago and absolutely loved it. So many cool things to see.

its a nice photo, but has absolutely nothing to do with the article's topic

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California Street. Take the cable car up the hill unless you're really fit. I tried it once with a friend. We made many stops along the way and still grabbed the cable car halfway up.