Project Abstract
On the town's main shopping street "traffic is now to a large degree governed on the terms of the light road users. The establishment of the first 350 m of a total of 750 m pedestrian street and 30 km/h streets was made financially feasible by the shopkeepers, who by their advance payment for a rented street area contributed considerably to the financing."
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One of the busy shopping streets in the town center.
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Hjorring [pop. 24,000] is a regional destination for shopping and tourism. One of its busy shopping streets, Ostergade, runs east-west through the town center.
An experiment in 1986 established two sections of pedestrian streets in the shopping district. Interviews revealed that most supported pedestrian streets in the summertime, but also that traffic and parking conditions had deteriorated.
On the basis of this experiment two streets were redesigned so that they could be converted to pedestrian streets during the tourist and holiday seasons. Improvements were also made to ring roads around the town center, which reduced traffic on the shopping streets.
Further Reading:
Shopping Street in Hjorring, Denmark
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