Designing greener streets starts with finding room for bicycles and trees
- Written by Anne Lusk, Research Scientist, Harvard University
Street in Hangzhou, China, with trees separating a cycle track from road traffic and from the sidewalk.Xu Wen, CC BY-ND
City streets and sidewalks in the United States have been engineered for decades to keep vehicle occupants and pedestrians safe. If streets include trees at all, they might be planted in small sidewalk pits, where, if constrained...
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