I parked at the end of the road, where the pavement widens into an empty lot.
In the intervening period, infrastructure and accommodation have been improved and expanded – pavements widened, signage increased, tour buses rerouted – but the problem is a fundamental one.
It was closed to all vehicles except public transport; the pavements were widened to make it feel like a suburban mall.Far from attracting more shoppers, this repelled them.
The pavements have been widened, paving material improved, clutter removed along with the removal of the central white line.
It's taking a while to banish cars from busy centres, but every pavement-widening or pedestrianisation scheme reclaims streets for the people who live, work, and, yes, walk in them.
In the future, perhaps pavements could be widened at low-traffic times, or traffic limited when the street is overcrowded.
Since then, some streets have been given over to pedestrians, pavements have been widened and traffic-light phasing has been changed in favour of people on foot.
The result shows that excessive differential settlement can cause considerable tensile strain in the pavement structure of a widened road, for which a maximum value (S) of 6 cm is recommended.
Parallel fissures in a pavement of rock widen over time to create a series of thin walls.
In order to maintain the flow of traffic on the Zagreb Belgrade road during construction, the southern carriageway was completed first, and then the two-way traffic was rerouted to the new carriageway while the old, northern carriageway was widened and its pavement structure was replaced with a new one.
