Pedestrian precinct

A pedestrian precinct , or pedestrian precinct or pedestrian plate , of a city is a whole of streets and lanes where circulation is reserved for the Piéton S and often also with the cyclists. One finds mainly pedestrian precincts in the historical centres of the cities. Indeed the narrowness of the streets and the offer reduced in places of Stationnement for cars led the town planners to encourage this evolution. Today, the development of the pedestrian precincts is also closely related to the questions of environmental protection and the fight against the gas emissions with greenhouse effect rejected by the motor vehicle traffic.

The first way French pedestrian was the street of the Gros Horloge to Rouen in 1971: " privés" passage of the motorists, the tradesmen thought that this installation would carry damage to their activity. However, as of the installation, it is the opposite effect which occurred and created a passion for the pedestrian precincts.

The installation of a pedestrian precinct often coincides with a development of the trade and an special attention paid to the embellishment of the buildings (in bond sometimes with tools of the type: POIH).

There is quickly become aware that the surface of a pedestrian plate is not extensible ad infinitum because the users often balk to achieve too long distances to foot. It is thus important that a pedestrian precinct of vast dimensions is doubled by an effective system of public transport. The range is very wide: simple Escalator with the Tram while passing by the bicycle.

Pedestrian city

A pedestrian city is, as its name indicates it, a city whose majority of the streets are reserved to the pedestrians. The generally tourist character of the malls offers in the majority of the cases, an infrastructure renewed and composed of refittings in order to make the hike surer and pleasant. The absence of motorized modes contributes to increase acoustic comfort, safety and freedom of movement. The travelling soft modes nevertheless are often authorized in these spaces.

Some pedestrians cities:

Amsterdam
Annecy
Have (France, the Eastern Pyrenees)
Giethoorn
Leuwen-the-New
Montpellier
Venice
Saint-Denis
Bordeaux (street co. Catherine more than one kilometer length entirely reserved to the pedestrians)
Zermatt (Swiss, Were worth German-speaking) This station (1829) was accessible only by one distant train, then one served the hotels with the local tram since 1930, the city forever known of other cars only of service and electric: the petonnisation did not take place, the city was pedestrian by vocation.

Pedestrian districts

A pedestrian district is an indicated district, clearly identified or the vehicles have a limited access. It acts in the majority of the case of sectors with tourist vocation equipped with historical characteristics making difficult or dangerous the cohabitation of pedestrians and vehicles.

An example is the district of the Petit Champlain, in the town of Quebec, or the access to the vehicles is allowed according to a schedule and methods very strict, but making it possible all the same to the tradesmen to be supplied.

In certain cases, the marketing activity of intense attractivity brings a need for making safe the pedestrians in a broad perimeter around the streets of the purely pietonnized districts. The accesses of the pedestrian plate are defined like zones at very limited speed making compatible circulation of proximity with the flow of passage inter-district and the parking of residence. " example; zone 30" with Lyon.

Technical sides of the installation of pedestrian precinct

The pedestrian precinct can be seasonal or permanent.

Urban area with not modified way

The street not comprising circulation of transit is equipped in general only with signs with information with the public, and some times of the wickets filter the access. They are zones which are in towns of leisure to intense activity for the holiday periods, with the daily market, and the shops of season. The parking on street or place can become paying in the zone of proximity. (In the same way, the parking can be free in summer period in big city).

Urban area with way with modified structure

The street is taken again by companies of V.R.D as well for its surface as for its basement. The bitumen is removed and natural a stone blocking resulting from career or a blocking of paving stones concrete is set up on one of concrete flagstone supporting a layer of gravel and sand. The whole of the conduits for fluids is repositioned. For example in the streets of the center of Grenoble (1979).

Name

The “pedestrian” Adjectif designates an individual who moves with feet, and should not thus be used to qualify a zone reserved to the pedestrians: it is “pedestrian” which is adapted the most in this case.

See too

Mall

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