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You think M25 was badly executed? It seems functional though with awful traffic at times. And London's inner ring road?
London doesnt have a dedicated inner ring road (ie what was the original congestion charging boundary) as such, the so called inner ring road is a collection of dozens of old roads.
Im not talking about roads like the M25, which given it is Londons one and only complete ring road, and also serves the various satellite towns, does indeed do a good job. - rather im talking about urban motorways made up of flyovers/bridges, trenches/tunnels. They have used cheap concrete, whereas if they were designed like old victorian bridges, probably wouldnt be so unliked.
The original plan was to build a walkable town center with a theater, restaurants, stores, ect on the last large buildable piece of land in town...
We got a Walmart instead, but at least the city made them do a cartoon Main Street facade on the building (how's that for irony? ). We also got a small movie theater sandwiched between two freeways in a rather uninspiring formerly industrial zone that is completely cut off from the rest of town. There isn't even a sidewalk over the freeway to get to it, and no reason to go there except to watch a movie.
Meanwhile, the next city to the north is getting this:
Check out this Kmart in Minneapolis that blocks Nicollet Ave Lyn-Lake, Minneapolis, MN - Google Maps
I believe there is plans to tear down the Kmart and re connect the road again also adding a street car
Check out this Kmart in Minneapolis that blocks Nicollet Ave Lyn-Lake, Minneapolis, MN - Google Maps
I believe there is plans to tear down the Kmart and re connect the road again also adding a street car
Is this the shopping district and KMart?
Seems like it help the urban fabric is this was done
file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Guest/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg (broken link)Closing off a street and making it a mall was popular in the 1970's. Most have been changed back.
This is sort of a minor urban planning fail, but behind the bushes on the right, there are railroad tracks, and passenger service ended in 1953. A year later, in 1954, the housing projects on the left side opened up.
So they abandoned a railroad line just before a higher-density development was built that could've benefitted from it. 50 years later, the area is left with only buses, which can get overcrowded at certain times of the day, and this was all preventable.
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). We also got a small movie theater sandwiched between two freeways in a rather uninspiring formerly industrial zone that is completely cut off from the rest of town. There isn't even a sidewalk over the freeway to get to it, and no reason to go there except to watch a movie. 
No need to post individual pictures when this map says it all.
