No-Curb Streets Are Seattle's Hottest Traffic Trend
“We have curbs for a reason,” he says. “They protect people from cars.” An advocate for sustainable streets, Ostrow is the muckraker behind the Queen Anne Greenways account on Twitter, which has been critical of the novel design of the plaza. Barbara Bailey Way features a pedestrian area that smears into the roadway without the traditional concrete lip of a curb — just one continuous apron of pavement, with just a few subtle concrete ridges to delineate between space for cars versus humans. Unfamiliar though the treatment may be in Seattle, this curbless arrangement has been appeari...
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