On Tuesday 10 November 2009 23:42:08 Paul Johnson wrote: > Chris Hunter wrote: > > What about the living_street tag? > > In the US, a living street is called a "bicycle boulevard." These ways > typically only have through lanes for bicycles, with motor traffic > often limited to only one direction and required to turn at major > intersections (preventing it's use as a rat-run route for impatient > motorists with broken legs). Segregated pedestrian facilities (such as > sidewalks) are often (but not always) provided in an effort to move > pedestrians out of the way of faster moving, high-volume bicycle > traffic.
Which means it is not a living street at all, because in a living street the pedestrians are the most important users. -- m.v.g., Cartinus _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
