Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 11/02/2026“The retention of old historic areas and areas of special architectural interest is dependent upon the maintenance of satisfactory environmental standards.” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 010
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 10/02/2026“It should be possible… to reduce the volume of traffic in the existing streets to levels that would give a reasonable standard of environment” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 033
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 09/02/2026“it would be essential to reduce to a minimum the amount of parking space (especially for car commuters) served directly off the old street network within the old city” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 000
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 06/02/2026“seems to be the only way of saving the old city from a descent into such chaos that eventually an irresistible demand will arise for it to be swept away” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 011
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 05/02/2026“The severance of these areas by heavy traffic flows would be extremely detrimental to the environment. Most of these sub-areas have strong ties with each other” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 030
Reposted by Traffic in TownsTraffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 27/01/2026“Yet, on any count, a speed of 30 m.p.h. is too great at any time in any part of the old city. Public opinion might not be prepared for a move in this direction at the present time” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 032
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 27/01/2026“Yet, on any count, a speed of 30 m.p.h. is too great at any time in any part of the old city. Public opinion might not be prepared for a move in this direction at the present time” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 032
Reposted by Traffic in TownsTraffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 26/01/2026“it is estimated that the number of vehicles seeking to enter the old city daily, exclusive of through traffic, would increase to about 76,000 by 2010” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 002
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 26/01/2026“it is estimated that the number of vehicles seeking to enter the old city daily, exclusive of through traffic, would increase to about 76,000 by 2010” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 002
Reposted by Traffic in TownsTraffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 21/01/2026“Yet to provide additional car parking facilities in the centre would be the surest way of increasing the amount of traffic using the already congested streets” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 023
Reposted by Traffic in TownsTraffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 22/01/2026“to remove large numbers of buildings in the centre to make way for car parks would destroy the traditional compactness, and encourage more vehicles into the area” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 002
Reposted by Traffic in TownsTraffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 23/01/2026“if the environment is sacrosanct, and if no major reconstruction can be undertaken, then accessibility must be limited. There can be no question about this” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 012
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 23/01/2026“if the environment is sacrosanct, and if no major reconstruction can be undertaken, then accessibility must be limited. There can be no question about this” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 012
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 22/01/2026“to remove large numbers of buildings in the centre to make way for car parks would destroy the traditional compactness, and encourage more vehicles into the area” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 002
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 21/01/2026“Yet to provide additional car parking facilities in the centre would be the surest way of increasing the amount of traffic using the already congested streets” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 023
Reposted by Traffic in TownsTraffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 20/01/2026“This potentially high standard of environment is, however, lowered by the effect which vehicular traffic is having upon it…” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 011
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 20/01/2026“This potentially high standard of environment is, however, lowered by the effect which vehicular traffic is having upon it…” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 011
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 19/01/2026“There is still a great deal of pedestrian movement, but the pattern has changed with the changes in land use” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 010
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 16/01/2026“The traffic on these roads is mainly destined for Norwich, but in summer there is a higher proportion of through traffic than at other times of the year caused by vehicles bound for the holiday resorts” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 010
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 15/01/2026“Altogether, in the small area of the old city, there are 400 buildings or groups of buildings which have been listed under the Town and Country Planning Act as being of historic or architectural interest” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 020
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 14/01/2026“We wish to make it quite clear that this study is in no sense put forward as a plan for Norwich” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 241
Reposted by Traffic in TownsTraffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 14/07/2025“We estimate that 115 acres, or 48% of the central area would need to be redeveloped to achieve this plan. This includes land for roads and parking garages” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 001
Reposted by Traffic in TownsTraffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 16/07/2025“Erection of garages is now in progress, and is likely to go on until there is provision for at least one car per family… ownership is showing itself in a marked increase of traffic within the area” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 021
Reposted by Traffic in TownsTraffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Traffic in Towns is 61 years old today. To celebrate, the digital version is now live. This landmark study examined the impact of increasing car culture on the UK. We hope this digital version helps inform then on-going debate on ‘the traffic problem’. #TrafficInTowns trafficintowns.uk 66133
Reposted by Traffic in TownsTraffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 18/07/2025“It seems to us that the restraint is bound to fall primarily on the use of the private car for travelling to work, and this has vitally important implications for public transport.” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 011
Reposted by Traffic in TownsTraffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 17/07/2025“There is in fact scope for several quite different arrangements whereby pedestrian and vehicle movements can be separated” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 021
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 18/07/2025“It seems to us that the restraint is bound to fall primarily on the use of the private car for travelling to work, and this has vitally important implications for public transport.” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 011
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 17/07/2025“There is in fact scope for several quite different arrangements whereby pedestrian and vehicle movements can be separated” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 021
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 16/07/2025“Erection of garages is now in progress, and is likely to go on until there is provision for at least one car per family… ownership is showing itself in a marked increase of traffic within the area” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 021
Reposted by Traffic in TownsTraffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 15/07/2025“We have called this technique ‘environmental management’. It should be distinguished from ‘traffic management’, which is solely concerned with the movement of vehicles” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 001
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 15/07/2025“We have called this technique ‘environmental management’. It should be distinguished from ‘traffic management’, which is solely concerned with the movement of vehicles” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 001
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 14/07/2025“We estimate that 115 acres, or 48% of the central area would need to be redeveloped to achieve this plan. This includes land for roads and parking garages” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 001
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 11/07/2025“We think this is a case where the advantage lies in placing the road in a cutting with pedestrian links across it, with retaining walls suitably designed to reduce the noise’ trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 010
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 09/07/2025“We then examined the central area in more detail, with the object of determining the broad nature and scale of the changes required…’ trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 000
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 08/07/2025“The primary network comprises about 70 miles of road, about three quarters of which would be new roads mostly of motorway standards“ trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 000
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 07/07/2025“Out of 67,000 daily shopping journeys into the central area from outside, we assumed that 64%, or 43,000 would eventually be made by car” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 010
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 07/07/2025“The study showed that great variations exist in the carrying capacities of the existing roads.” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 000
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 07/07/2025“We then examined the central area in more detail, with the object of determining the broad nature and scale of the changes required” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 000
Reposted by Traffic in TownsTraffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 02/07/2025“we examined the whole city in order to determine the possible arrangement of the city into groups of environmental areas” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 021
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 04/07/2025“The primary network comprises about 70 miles of road, about three quarters of which would be new roads mostly of motorway standards” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 000
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 02/07/2025“we examined the whole city in order to determine the possible arrangement of the city into groups of environmental areas” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 021
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 01/07/2025“But it is abundantly clear that the scale of the primary network is markedly influenced by the extent to which private cars are used for the journey to work.” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 100
Reposted by Traffic in TownsTraffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 26/06/2025“The estimated daily total number of journeys arising under these conditions would be slightly over 1,000,000” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 012
Reposted by Traffic in TownsTraffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 26/06/2025“The outline of our calculations will have made it clear that work journeys by car accounted for the greater part of the traffic volumes that would arise” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 001
Reposted by Traffic in TownsTraffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 27/06/2025“This theoretical network takes no account, of course, of local environments, existing development, or physical features, nor does it take account of any through traffic” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 002
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 27/06/2025“This theoretical network takes no account, of course, of local environments, existing development, or physical features, nor does it take account of any through traffic” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 002
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 26/06/2025“The outline of our calculations will have made it clear that work journeys by car accounted for the greater part of the traffic volumes that would arise” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 001
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 26/06/2025“The estimated daily total number of journeys arising under these conditions would be slightly over 1,000,000” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 012
Reposted by Traffic in TownsTraffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 25/06/2025“These journeys were by far the most difficult to analyse because of their great variety, and the dearth of information about the generation of this class of traffic” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 001
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social · 25/06/2025“These journeys were by far the most difficult to analyse because of their great variety, and the dearth of information about the generation of this class of traffic” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo... 001