Argentinierstraße in Vienna is turning into a bicycle and pedestrian street. 140 car parking spaces eliminated. Sjors van Duren, Dutch cycling expert advised on the design

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1. After the whole city was covered in concrete during the car craze in the 70s and 80s, it’s nice to see the city undoing this now.

2. Beautiful. Would love to see this more often in more European cities.

3. Every single street of every single city or town in Italy that becomes closed to traffic has first a total uproar of local businesses and shops who, in the following years, of course see their business flourish in an unprecedented manner. It’s that simple.

4. I already can smell the coping of all the petrol-heads that use to live there.

5. Deamericanize Europe! Much of the dystopian vision for urban planning that prioritized cars came from Robert Moses.

   https://youtu.be/bb1IijxVR7c?si=N2-GFs-D-qpkxDci

6. There’s an Argentina Street in Vienna?

7. “Bicycle and pedestrian street” is a misnomer. Cars are allowed to drive there, and there are plenty of parking lots left. Unfortunately they removed a separated bicycle path for this, so cyclist now have to drive alongside cars where they did not have to before. The separated cycle path was way too small for both directions, but they could have just made it so that downhill you use the street, and uphill you use that cycle path. This was already allowed, people just did not know it (square cycle-path sign = does not have to be used).

   We’ll see if it works out, but my enthusiasm is very limited. Success entirely depends on whether the new layout of one lanes (and perhaps modal filters) will sufficiently reduce car traffic. I especially do not like driving uphill on a shared road with cars.

8. Just to add to that: this particular street has more than 1mil bike rides a year btw last few years. Only makes sense.

9. Oh a Dutchman of course again!

10. Good, Vienna has waaay too much roadside parking. It’s a plague.

11. Very good

12. Who do I have to kill to get this kind of project in Romania? Bucharest in particular is a city of cars, I hate it.

13. Cool, wanna see more!