[Talk-ca] Bicycle boulevards

[Corey Burger]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Paul Johnson<baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
> I'm curious if bicycle boulevards would qualify as living streets, given
> that a living street would most closely describe a bicycle boulevard in
> OSM terms, though a bicycle boulevard might lack pedestrian facilities.
>  Frequently, these are not streets you would want to let the kids play
> in, as the volume of fast-moving, near-silent vehicles would present a
> very real collision hazard at peak traffic times.  This kind of way has
> sprung up only in the last 10 years or so, and almost all of them were
> formerly highway=residential prior to becoming bicycle boulevards.

No, I wouldn't tag them as living streets. Bike boulevards don't have
a speed limit of 7km/hr and don't usually have the same surface
treatment to merge sidewalks into the roadway.

However, a cycleway=boulevard might be a good tag to have.

Corey