The auto restricted zone directly affects six different streets in the core retail area. Auto traffic was banned on three blocks of the main retail street, Washington Street. This street section was originally a transit mall, but much of it is now a fully pedestrianized zone. Another major retailing street which intersects Washington Street, Winter Street/Summer Street, was also closed to auto traffic and converted to a pedestrian zone. Auto restrictions were also implemented on nearby Franklin, Bromfield, School and Hawley Streets. A total of eleven blocks were closed to auto traffic, in addition to one block previously closed. The project was planned and implemented in a relatively short time period. Physical image improvements, such as bricking of the street surfaces and the placement of benches, new lights and other pedestrian amenities, were done the next summer, and essentially completed by September 1979.
Downtown Crossing: Auto Restricted Zone in Boston
1982
425 pages
Report
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English