[OSM-newbies] pedestrian or footway?

[Cartinus]

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.


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m.v.g.,
Cartinus