Comments on: Pedestrian Streets, Hong Kong Style http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2007/01/23/pedestrian-streets-hong-kong-style/ Exploring urban life through word and photography Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:47:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Eric Bowers http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2007/01/23/pedestrian-streets-hong-kong-style/comment-page-1/#comment-1892 Eric Bowers Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:23:08 +0000 http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2007/01/23/pedestrian-streets-hong-kong-style/#comment-1892 I think it's nearly unheard of for a city's transportation department to actually formulate and enact pedestrianization shemes. In the US, it seems as though tranportation planners only get excited about widening highways and engineering ghastly automobile traffic sewers all in the effort to move cars more quickly, with no regard to any other transit medium, be it bipedal locomotion or public transportation. I just added to my list another reason why I love Hong Kong so much. I think it’s nearly unheard of for a city’s transportation department to actually formulate and enact pedestrianization shemes. In the US, it seems as though tranportation planners only get excited about widening highways and engineering ghastly automobile traffic sewers all in the effort to move cars more quickly, with no regard to any other transit medium, be it bipedal locomotion or public transportation.

I just added to my list another reason why I love Hong Kong so much.

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