AJ Sadauskas<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@tom_andraszek" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tom_andraszek</span></a></span> I think we've got a not dissimilar reference point.</p><p>For me, its Laisves alėja in Kaunas (in Lithuania).</p><p>There's two rows of trees down the middle.</p><p>There's park benches under many of those trees.</p><p>The generally accepted rule is that you cycle (or skateboard) in that area.</p><p>There's a wide pedestrian space either side.</p><p>The buildings on either side are around four storeys tall.</p><p>You have shops and cafés on the ground floor, with all fresco dining.</p><p>You have small offices (doctors, dentists) and apartments on the floors above.</p><p>The pedestrianised street runs the entire length of the Kaunas CBD. </p><p>It begins in the old town, near Kaunas Castle and the confluence of the Nemunas and Neris Rivers. </p><p>It runs around 1.6 kilometres east.</p><p>There are trolleybuses running parallel along the streets one block north and one block south.</p><p>It would be worthwhile for Australian urban planners to head out to Kaunas just to see this one street.</p><p>I guarantee they'd learn a lot about what a pedestrianised space should be.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/walking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>walking</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/pedestrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pedestrian</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/city" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>city</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/cities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cities</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/urban" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>urban</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/UrbanPlanning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UrbanPlanning</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/walk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>walk</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/kaunas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kaunas</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/lietuva" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lietuva</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/lithuania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lithuania</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/urbanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>urbanism</span></a></p>