[Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] Bicycle boulevards

Shaun McDonald shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk
Wed Jun 10 10:48:32 BST 2009


On 10 Jun 2009, at 03:25, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:

> 2009/6/9 Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org>:
>> 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.
>
> I would still like to see the cycleroad-proposal become reality,
> because these kind of streets IMHO merit their own class.
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/cycleroad
>

In my eyes, that road would be simply tagged with highway=cycleway.

Shaun

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