Rethinking Transit on Urban Streets

By By carrie Swiggum 
Published on March 30, 2009

Maybe this is the future of putting the human back into transit, and redesigning streets for multi-purpose transportation: Parisian urbanites are experimenting with a “street code” to designate the rules of the road, and for the most part seems like common sense. In this system you are “responsible for a user that is lighter than you” while navigating the dense urban system–emphasizing co-existence: semi-trucks yield to cars; cars to bikes and bikes to pedestrians. This video explains the system in further detail and highlights other features of the urban network.

Source: Streetfilms.org

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