Alternate Design #2

This variation also has 600 metre wide pedestrian villages linked by trolleybuses.  But here, rather than parking their cars to the rear of properties, residents would park their cars in circular car parks a 2 minute walk from their home.

The advantage of these circular car parks is that, at any point, the whole town can be made fully carfree.  Circular car parks would be replaced with homes, and cars would be parked in large car parks on the edge of each district.

      

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Freight

Cars, vans and trucks can still be used to move freight around pedestrian areas where necessary.  But with all the air pollution, noise and danger they bring to city streets, they are the last resort.

Small Freight

Smaller, lighter goods - such as the weekly shop - would be transported around town by handcart, utilising the trolleybus network for movement between districts.

Heavy Freight

The circular car parks allow goods to be delivered by vehicle to within 150 metres (300 metres for the central district) of their destination without entering pedestrian areas at all.  Ideally goods would then be transported by handcart the rest of the way.

With especially large or heavy goods, cars and vans can deliver directly to homes and businesses.  But they would have to drive very, very slowly and give way to pedestrians.

Lorries, being a great deal bigger and heavier than vans, are best kept out of pedestrian areas completely.  It would doubtless be necessary to allow them occasional access, but this should be kept to an absolute minimum.

Direct Road Access

Businesses with the highest freight requirements - light industry, furniture stores etc. - would be located against the edges of car parks to give them direct road access.

     

Light industry would also be located along the straight connecting roads within districts, again giving them direct road access.  Houses at both ends would maintain a pleasant pedestrian environment on paths cutting across.

Rail Freight

A rail freight terminal would be constructed, allowing containers to arrive via rail.  Only for the last 2 or 3 miles would they have to go by road.