I'd have said a pedestrian street was one which (often through conversion)
is now primarily for access on foot, and pretty much unsegregated (ie no
kerbs, and not much paving differentiation). Access varies (can be bicycles,
motorcycles or even some cars - eg Lucca in Italy). It doesn't only apply to
the ghastly shopping precincts.

You could also use a Living Street, but these usually feature quite a bit of
residential car parking, and are fairly open access to car traffic, albeit
at walking pace.

Richard

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com
> wrote:

> 2009/5/29 Greg Troxel <g...@ir.bbn.com>:
> >
> >  Isn't that highway=pedestrian exactly?  As for cars I think it might
> >  be a physical impossibility rather than permitted / not permitted.
> >  (But for routing purposes it's just the same.)
>
> well, IMHO it's not, as "pedestrian" are streets not generally allowed
> to cars, where here it is not a street (according to it's width) and
> motorcycles are allowed (unlike in pedestrian areas). For the width it
> is more footway than pedestrian, but IMHO functionally rather
> highway=residential, width=1.8
>
> Martin
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