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...changing how cities are organized. To Kamen's way of thinking, the problem is the automobile. "Cities need cars like fish need bicycles," he says. Segways, he believes, are ideal for downtown transportation. Unlike cars, they are cheap, clean, efficient, maneuverable. Unlike bicycles, they are designed specifically to be pedestrian friendly. "A bike is too slow and light to mix with trucks in the street but too large and fast to mix with pedestrians on the sidewalk," he argues. "Our machine is compatible with the sidewalk. If a Segway hits you, it's like being hit by another pedestrian...
...Yehuda street is one of Jerusalem's best known and well-traversed thoroughfares, a pedestrian mall where teenagers and soldiers on leave like to gather. But late Saturday night, at approximately 11:40 p.m., two blasts turned it into an abattoir of human limbs, blood and wreckage. "We heard a huge blast and then another one," said one off-duty police official on the scene. "We saw a lot of smoke. People were lying on the street. People were screaming and a lot of people were running from the place of the explosions...
Drawbridges are quaint, but they are so medieval. So when city planners in the industrial town of Gateshead, in northeast England, picked a design for a new pedestrian and bike bridge to connect Gateshead with the historic city of Newcastle across the winding river Tyne, they decided that a break from tradition was in order. For most of the day, a single steel arch vaults high above the water, fixed by 18 harplike suspension cables to a 413-ft.-long, curved pathway below. When a boat approaches, however, the entire bridge pivots to one side. As the lower deck rises...
Planting trees and adding new lighting, Randall said, will also serve to “clean up the roadway and make it more pedestrian-friendly...
Randall said renovation additional plans for the road include widening the entrance at its Shepard St. intersection to prevent shuttles from climbing onto the curb and narrowing the road everywhere else to make it feel “more like a pedestrian way than a city street...