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- From: gdb15@grebe.cl.cam.ac.uk (Guy Barry)
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- Subject: Re: City Traffic
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 19:41:10 GMT
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- In article <30682@castle.ed.ac.uk> cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:
- >
- >If you stand in Princes Street, Edinburgh, on Saturday morning you
- >will observe a strange phenomenon: a woman will come out of a shop
- >laden with shopiing and stand on the kerb. Soon a car will draw up,
- >she gets in, and is driven away. A little more observation reveals
- >that outside any large shop there are lots of men driving their cars
- >round and round the block waiting for their wives to come out with the
- >shopping.
-
- For those who don't know Edinburgh, Princes Street is almost unique
- amongst main shopping streets in that it only has shops along one
- side; the other side is taken up with Princes Street Gardens.
- Although shoppers never have to cross the road, there are always
- letters in the local papers calling for it to be pedestrianized. This
- baffles me (as a pedestrian) since there are many streets in the city
- that might benefit from being pedestrianized, but Princes Street isn't
- one of them, though the crushes on Saturdays probably constitute
- a good case for widening the pavement.
-
- Chris's observation may be a further argument against
- pedestrianization!
-
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