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In article <30682@castle.ed.ac.uk> cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:
>
>If you stand in Princes Street, Edinburgh, on Saturday morning you
>will observe a strange phenomenon: a woman will come out of a shop
>laden with shopiing and stand on the kerb. Soon a car will draw up,
>she gets in, and is driven away. A little more observation reveals
>that outside any large shop there are lots of men driving their cars
>round and round the block waiting for their wives to come out with the
>shopping.

For those who don't know Edinburgh, Princes Street is almost unique
amongst main shopping streets in that it only has shops along one
side; the other side is taken up with Princes Street Gardens.
Although shoppers never have to cross the road, there are always
letters in the local papers calling for it to be pedestrianized.  This
baffles me (as a pedestrian) since there are many streets in the city
that might benefit from being pedestrianized, but Princes Street isn't
one of them, though the crushes on Saturdays probably constitute
a good case for widening the pavement.

Chris's observation may be a further argument against
pedestrianization!

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