Residents living near the park oppose the plan, arguing that it will create health problems, ruin precious greenery and worsen traffic in the area.
The recently completed $23 million dollar Flatbush Avenue streetscape project added much needed greenery and a traffic calming median.
Area of residence (urban, semi-urban or rural) might also relate to walking and cycling as these areas differ in residential densities, proximity of destinations, traffic, greenery... To our knowledge only two studies previously focused on the relationship between urban versus semi-urban residence and older adults' walking for transportation.
Hashem marvels at the calmness of it all, the lack of traffic, the greenery.
The opposite, significantly higher values for the suburban route environments than for the inner urban ones, was seen for the items: on the whole, hinders or stimulates, bicycle paths, traffic: unsafe or safe, greenery and short or long (see Tables 2 and 4).
The event took place outdoors, in the walled urban garden behind 10 Downing Street, in the sunlight, amid greenery, with a faint background sound of traffic and passing airplanes.
I was pleasantly surprised to see the beauty of Islamabad, all the blocks of nice mansions, well-planned roads with loads of traffic, but no traffic jams, and greenery everywhere.
Ecology-minded discussions of New York City often have a hopeless tone, and focus on ways in which the city might be made to seem somewhat less oppressively man-made: by increasing the area devoted to parks and greenery, by incorporating vegetation into buildings themselves, by reducing traffic congestion, by easing the intensity of development, by creating open space around structures.
Pedestrian traffic abounds along the broad sidewalks that are shielded by extensive, mature greenery that provides much of the friendly atmosphere.
On our drive there, one of the observations I noticed was starting about a mile or so out - there was no traffic, there was no trash, there were no homeless; instead, there were paved streets, greenery and quietness.
