woonerf

plural woonerfs · plural woonerven

1. uncommonA street in which pedestrians and cyclists have priority over motorists.

   Other problems cited by Poulton include overall circulation problems, parking problems for service vans, and the difficulty strangers have finding their way around a woonerf.

   1992, Stephen Carr, Public Space, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 142

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   He and his staff looked worldwide — to Trafalgar Square in London, to the Spanish Steps in Rome — and found that the designs best suited to the intersections were the Netherlands’ curbless woonerfs, which make no differentiation between street and sidewalk.

   2007 July 29, Gregory Beyer, “Where Street, Sidewalk and Sanity Intersect”, in New York Times

   Synonyms: living street, home zone, complete street, shared zone