Re: [Tagging] Living streets in the United States

2010-08-10 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:10:29 +0200, Pieren wrote: On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: From the wiki it looks like something smaller or more restricted than a regular residential street, but bigger than a driveway. It's not smaller, physically it's

Re: [Tagging] Living streets in the United States

2010-08-10 Thread Pieren
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: How is this different from every residential street in North America? I don't know for US. I just say for what it was originally created in Europe. When I say the max speed is smaller, it's really smaller. See the

Re: [Tagging] Living streets in the United States

2010-08-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:40:55 -0700, Alan Millar wrote: On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 11:20 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: After having come across a few ways tagged highway=living_street in Troutdale, Oregon; I have to wonder what exactly would qualify such a street as a living street given that we have

Re: [Tagging] Living streets in the United States

2010-08-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 11:33:27 +0300, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: Maybe US law just hopes that driver would be very reasonable and won't charge at 60 in a backyard :) Clearly you have never encountered someone who is guilty of driving while Californian...

Re: [Tagging] Living streets in the United States

2010-08-09 Thread Pieren
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: From the wiki it looks like something smaller or more restricted than a regular residential street, but bigger than a driveway. It's not smaller, physically it's a residential street that is transformed to a living

Re: [Tagging] Living streets in the United States

2010-08-09 Thread Liz
On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, Pieren wrote: From the wiki it looks like something smaller or more restricted than a regular residential street, but bigger than a driveway. It's not smaller, physically it's a residential street that is transformed to a living street. The difference is the very low

Re: [Tagging] Living streets in the United States

2010-08-08 Thread Bill Ricker
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 4:33 AM, Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com wrote: In fact it can be called also a living zone. Mostly it is European thing, according to wiki. There are not as many in US but they exist. I am aware of a pair of ways in NYC's old Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn neighborhood that

Re: [Tagging] Living streets in the United States

2010-08-07 Thread Alan Millar
On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 11:20 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: After having come across a few ways tagged highway=living_street in Troutdale, Oregon; I have to wonder what exactly would qualify such a street as a living street given that we have no such classification in the Americas? Heck, we