[Comment] A fake zone 30 in Alvalade?

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Zones 30 were created on several one-way streets around the Alvalade Market. Street corners were changed to prevent parking on top of crosswalks, and cycle lanes shared with other traffic were marked.

Photo by Mário Rui André/Lisbon for People

But this was a very lazy piece of work. The street in this picture, for example, was kept wide enough for there to still be second-row parking. The sidewalk could have been widened substantially or a cycling counter-flow created, narrowing the road to prevent not only illegal stops but also excessive speeds. It's a shame.

Temas: Alvalade

Mário Rui André

Journalist and editor of Lisboa Para Pessoas, a local newspaper about Lisbon and the metropolitan area. I have 30 years living in the capital and 10 years of experience in media, having co-founded Shifter, an independent and reference magazine about technology. I studied advertising and marketing at the Escola Superior de Comunicação Social and, later, journalism and communication at the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra. I write about Lisbon and about cities, mobility and urbanism in general. I follow a more human vision of the public space, and I am for citizenship and transparency on the part of governing bodies.