What we could learn from the Walmart parking lot at 82nd and Holgate
Maybe we should hire Walmart parking lot engineers to design our streets.
(Photos M.Andersen/BikePortland)
(Photos M.Andersen/BikePortland)
This post is part of our special focus on east Portland this week.
When people talk about using “traffic calming” to design a “commercial greenway” — like the one proposed for NE 28th Avenue — it sometimes comes off as a strange, experimental sort of magic that we’d probably have to visit Europe to understand.
But we don’t. Most Portlanders — most Americans — walk or drive through areas that are models of safely shared space almost every day of our lives. But we don’t call them greenways or woonerfs or home zones.
We call them parking lots.
