woonerfnoun [ C ]
plural woonerven or or woonerfs also Woonerf /ˈvuː.nɜːf//ˈvuː.nɜː˞f/specializeda road that is designed with special features to reduce the amount of traffic using it, or to make the traffic go slower:
Woonerf is Dutch for "living street," and refers to a new way of designing streets to be people-friendly open spaces.
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- As Grotenhuis put it "all traffic participants in a woonerf are considered equal, and... the pedestrian is a bit more equal than the others."
- By law, in a Woonerf vehicles are restricted to "walking pace" and compliance is encouraged by abolishing continuous kerbs and pavements, creating a space that is as much used by children as by cars.
- The regulations introduced in Germany in 1980 for restraining traffic in residential roads were a straight translation of those adopted in the Netherlands' Woonerven.
- Crucial to the success of woonerven is the marriage of law and design.
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Roads: urban & residential streets
- access road
- artery
- Ave
- avenue
- backstreets
- Blvd
- crescent
- drive
- driveway
- lane
- lollipop man/lady
- main drag
- main street
- mews
- parkway
- plaza
- row 1
- seafront
- square
- the whole street idiom
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