[sustran] Re: local businesses suffer financially when a zone is
pedestrianized
Pascal van den Noort
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Sat Jun 23 21:22:40 JST 2012
We have no knowledge of such reports and we have been looking for them.
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On 23 jun. 2012, at 14:20, Carlosfelipe Pardo wrote:
> Bogotá has just pedestrianised a stretch of the city center's main
> road (séptima, between 19th and 26th) since january, and commerce
> representatives have said that their sales went down since then but
> they don't have detailed data or a comprehensive before-after report.
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> Pardo
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> Probably written while riding a bicycle. Please excuse typos.
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> On 23/06/2012, at 3:38, eric britton <eric.britton at ecoplan.org> wrote:
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>> Has anyone here ever run across a solid report or study showing that local
>> businesses suffer financially when a zone is pedestrianized or made bike
>> accessible?
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>> Or that real estate prices take a nose dive when such improvements are made?
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>> Most of us here know about the other side of this coin, but it occurred to
>> me that this such references might be useful to us all, given that these
>> local conflicts and claims come up time and time again in cities around the
>> work..
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>> Kind thanks/Eric Britton
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