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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>May 31, 2020, 22:50 by joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div>Some mappers have suggested using highway=living_street for streets in Seattle (and perhaps elsewhere) which temporarily have through-traffic restricted for motor vehicles. However, this appears to be incorrect usage of the tag.<br></div></div></blockquote><div>For what is worth, for me primary meaning of highway=living_street is that pedestrian have legal<br></div><div>priority over vehicles and are allowed to use entire street, while motor vehicles<br></div><div>are still generally allowed.<br></div><div><br></div><div>So pedestrian may walk in any way and vehicles are obligated to yield to any and <br></div><div>all pedestrians.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>According to the announcement by SDOT, the streets in the Stay-Healthy Streets program have a speed limit of 32 kph (20 mph), much higher than the maximum for a Living Street (20 kmh to "walking speed"). It appears that the legal change is that these streets are now motor_vehicle=destination, with through-traffic prohibited, but they are not Living Streets according to the description in this page or at Wikipedia: <br></div></div></blockquote><div>Is there any other change? Because "no transit for motor vehicles, 32 km/h speed limit"<br></div><div>is well tagged with motor_vehicle=destination and maxspeed, not highway=living_street<br></div><div><br></div><div>And how temporary this is? 5 days? 2 weeks? 2 months? Nobody knows?<br></div><div><br></div><div>If just for 5 days I am dubious about tagging this at all.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div>The streets in Seattle have street parking along their whole lengths, and there are no design changes compared to other highway=residential streets in the city, except for signage / paint. <br></div></div></blockquote><div>In Poland we use that for roads signed with<br></div><div><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strefa_zamieszkania#/media/Plik:Znak_D-40.svg">https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strefa_zamieszkania#/media/Plik:Znak_D-40.svg</a><br></div><div>that has a legal meaning, even if street is designed like any other highway=living_street,<br></div><div>and street designed like living street without it would not be marked as highway=living_street<br></div><div>without that sign.<br></div><div><br></div> </body>
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