Captain Plan→it

lifeonfoot:

Objections are often raised that new narrow streets are impossible under today’s regulatory regime of fire codes and inflexible functional classification schemes, but examples such as these seem to disprove that notion.  The paved area plus flanking concrete drainage channels is 20 feet wide, conforming with the right-of-way requirements of the International Fire Code and the National Fire Protection Association.

I just got back from London and I was surprised at how well narrow one way streets worked for traffic (it helps that there is so little of it anyway.) Here in Columbus everyone is trying to kill all one ways as fast as possible, but now I’m thinking that might not be necessary.