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Neighbourhoods should be made permeable for walking and cycling - but not for cars

By Steve Melia - University of West of England
24 January 2008
 

'Maximising permeability for cars, making it easier for them to drive in all directions, will encourage people to walk and cycle.' How did such an obvious delusion come to be so widely accepted that its restatement in Manual for Streets passed almost unchallenged amongst the planning and transport professions?

Like many ideas to mislead our policy-makers, this one can be traced back, at least in part, to North America and a failure, when looking across the Atlantic for inspiration, to ask some...

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