Urban Streets and Parking Lots
I lived in Seattle for a few years. Seattle reduced the total volume of storm water leaving streets simply by reducing paved surfaces and planting trees. It not only resulted in lower future operating costs, but it also ended up cleaning air and beautifying neighbourhoods. End result is roads like these :-Notice the centre heavily landscaped centre median? In Redmond, WA almost all 4-lane roads are decorated with a landscaped median. Another benefit is that it creates a perception of narrowness and acts as traffic calming. Bike lanes are off road, for cyclists’...
Read MoreShould milton facilitate residents and/or businesses to sponsor trees?
DiscussionsView ResultsHere is the scenario: some of our roads are wide (some have 4-6 lanes … like Steeles, Derry, Thompson etc) while others are just wide (like Scott Blvd, even though South of Derry it is not a through street and ends pretty soon). I personally would like to see a median down the middle with trees. I worked in Washington, DC for two years and they (and MD touching it) does that where almost every road has a median with multiple rows of trees (in Gaithersburg, MD near my friend’s house they have three rows of trees in the middle median!) I blogged about it...
Read MoreUpdate from DC: holy trees…!
I am traveling this week and have been working insane hours (9am to midnight). For that reason I haven’t been able to take pictures yet. I do want to write about an area that I am very passionate about: TREES! I am in a very urban area. However, it’s bombarded with trees. I came to a friend’s house for dinner at Gaithersburg, MD (and right after dinner we both grabbed our laptops and started working). His neighbourhood street is very much like Savoline Blvd in HVE. However, it does have a median down the middle and – wait for it – with at least...
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