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Chapter III – part three: A historic town

Pedestrian movement: 257–258

 Novermber 1963    The Buchanan Report    Chapter 3iii  
Contents • Chapter 3iii • Pedestrian movement

There is still a great deal of pedestrian movement, but the pattern has changed with the changes in land use

  • Fig. 150 The street pattern was evolved at a time when most movements in towns were made on foot. Many pedestrian ways still remain.
    Fig. 150 The street pattern was evolved at a time when most movements in towns were made on foot. Many pedestrian ways still remain.
  • Fig. 151 The very narrowness of the streets forces pedestrians and vehicles into close proximity to each other.
    Fig. 151 The very narrowness of the streets forces pedestrians and vehicles into close proximity to each other.

Pedestrian movement

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The scale of the old city is small and essentially suited to the pedestrian. The area is only about a mile in width. The street pattern was evolved at a time when most movements in towns were made on foot. There is still a great deal of pedestrian movement, but the pattern has changed with the changes in land use. The bus station, for example, is now probably the largest single generator of pedestrian movement in the whole central area.

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The main pedestrian movements take place between points of arrival by vehicle (Thorpe Station, the bus station, four or five central bus stops and the car parks) and the central shopping and employment zones. In addition there is a certain amount of pedestrian movement into the central area from nearby residential areas. The main concentrations of these pedestrian movements are in the vicinity of the Market Place, and about the central shopping streets.

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