From the benefits of raised crosswalks to traffic calming chicanes,StreetFilms have produced some great animations that help to explainthe tools at our disposal to make streets more pedestrian and bikefriendly. The video above illustrates how traffic diverters can helpdirect motorized traffic in the appropriate direction, while creatingsafer routes for the rest of us. Of course, as with any of the othersolutions StreetFilms offers up, diverters won’t work in everysituation – but by providing an overview of the vast diversity ofstrategies we can deploy, Clarence and co are certainly helping usunderstand that walkable, bikeable, liveable communities need notremain a pipe dream. And to see how such communities might look, checkout some more StreetFilms action below the fold.
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