Re: Re: O’ Connell Street

@Morlan wrote:

I’m disappointed with this street and in particular the central median. Isn’t it meant for people to mingle and chill? At the moment it seems like a safety corridor for people to walk through quickly – “Take your photos of the Spire and then you’d better be on your way”.

Out of all the cities I’ve visited, Barcelona’s main though fare “Las Ramblas” has a lot in common with O’C St.

Las Ramblas is more like Henry Street (with seating). It is a place for strolling and lounging in the sun. O’Connell Street is a main vehicle traffic thoroughfare more like Avenue Diagonal. Las Ramblas has a single lane of traffic on each side. Also Barcelona doesn’t have doubledecker buses. It might have been an idea to make the street single lane in each direction with bays for buses to pull in at the sides.