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

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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

cheers,
Martin