Traveliing home on the train from York where I have been to a follow up meeting to my Yorkshire Forward trip to Holland about shared space. This is the revolutionary idea that making our built environment feel less safe by removing barriers between cars and pedestrians, taking away the traffic lights and crossings, removing road markings all together leads to a safer public realm! To the road engineers we were with this sounds bonkers... To the councils they serve it's madness; why let the evidence get in the way of your gut feelings or those of your electorate no doubt.
Sat on the train I had another kind of shared space experience as I got to talk to a young Polish banker on the way there and was surrounded by Chinese students on their way home. Our country is really another kind of shared space isn't it... Equally good for everyone even though some of the electorate don't appreciate it.
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