Showing posts with label Seven Dials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seven Dials. Show all posts

Tuesday, 9 October 2012

Five Things To Fix At Seven Dials, Brighton

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This graphic (top) is from Brighton and Hove City Council’s document on the Seven Dials scheme, and provides a neat summary of at least five things that need to be fixed. The following diagram of pedestrian movements at the junction comes from the same source. Great to see that people on foot are, at long last, being accorded some priority in these kinds of decisions – but I do wonder about those traces that go right through the middle of the roundabout!

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Monday, 8 October 2012

Quote of the Week

"Car drivers own cars but they don't own the roads."

Trevor Lacey, a barber in Brighton, commenting on Brighton and Hove City Council’s scheme for the Seven Dials area, which aims to rebalance the streets to give more priority to non-motorised users: more to come on this. Quote from The Argus 4.10.12. Picture from BHCC website.