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‘Tame’ wide British roads and replace them with boulevards of homes, says thinktank
(www.theguardian.com)
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I like the idea but is this not public land being sold to private property developers? A rethink of road traffic flows in a modern context is fine until we end up making neighbourhoods really crowded with shoebox investment portfolio options
I don't think the idea is to build houses on the wide roads, the idea is to build them beside the wide roads but remove space for private cars and instead repurpose that space for pedestrians and cyclists (in other words, have wide pavements ideally tree lined but instead of 4 wide lanes of cars maybe 2 narrow lanes with most of the space turned over as a public space for people).
I like your idea, but that's not what the article says
Only housing is mentioned.
"A boulevard is a type of broad avenue planted with rows of trees. " - Wikipedia