Click on the photo at left to view the larger image of the plans. What does it tell us? Well, for one, there's far too much parking. There's no need to intrude to the road or the sidewalk for this. As discussed in the previous post, there's plenty of parking downtown, just show people where to find it. And the trees? Well, the picture makes the most of them, but it's not the beautiful promenade you see today. Trees don't just belong on the very last pseudo-block by the bus station. Trees belong in the median strips all along the road. Plus, just check out the dimensions. If there is going to be diagonal parking, I'm thinking of 18th Street NW in Washington, DC, on restaurant row, there's ample space for people to pull into and out of parking spaces and to drive around them as they're doing it. With the dimensions here, you're inviting accidents... begging for them. Finally, why can't you line up some of the trees on opposite sides, so that pedestrians can cross. For this vibe to work, there have to be regular crosswalks, not just at the curbs. And construct them with brick, so we're enhancing the look and slowing down drivers, drawing their attention simultaneously up, down and across.
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