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The removal of cars is awesome… the decrease in corner stores less so.
As another user pointed out there is no indication they are gone.
The thing with street and store signage on a “car oriented” street is the signage needs to be big and visible from a drivers seat at a great distance.
When a street is taken back to “pedestrian traffic” the signage can be shrunk and be more inviting and geared towards eye level viewing.
If you look more carefully you can see that in the oldest photo cars are parked at parking places. In the newest photos the parking places appear to have been replaced by trees. Trees which were lacking in the oldest photo.
No real indication they’re gone.
The last photo has a different perspective where those shops on the left would be “behind” the camera.
Well noticed
I guarantee there is a Zabka very close.
Cool photo series.
Oh dear, these poor people! How can they live without constant noise pollution and without dirty air? Unbearable fate. Tragic.
Okay now show me more than a single city block
Why?
What do you think this photo series is depicting?
A single block if Google maps is any indicator, it’s just not that impressive, but I guess good job closing down one part of a road, sure seems like it hurt the businesses?
Another example is the area around the main train station, which used to be a carpark and bus station. It’s now an open public space and shopping center, viewable here. No cars, plenty of places to sit, and plenty of commerce.
That section of Krupnicza at the top of the post is doing fine in terms of business. There’s a nice stationery shop, a couple of bakeries, takeaway spots, and even a Starbucks–among others.
If you insist on a larger area full of trade with cars banned, you might consider ulica Grodzka, running from plac Wszystkich Świętych all the way to Wawel Castle. Several city blocks in length and full of shops and restaurants.
If none of that impresses, then maybe give us a concrete rubric, and I’ll see what other nice places in Krakow I can suggest.
Here are two photos of Plac Szczepański, another public space in Krakow, first in the 1960s(?) followed by the 2020s. It went from being a carpark to being a public square and splash park.
Wow the sun takes a while to move in Poland
oh, look, Krakow has a Williamsburg. I wonder how much rents shot up after it got all gentrified.
They should add one more photo. 1989, at the end of the Soviet occupation and then you will understand why nobody wants the fucking Russians occupying and influencing their countries.
To be honest. The last picture looks too sterile and lacking character. And The shops have become transparent.
But most importantly it has the mark of an elitist urban designer who goes everywhere by car and doesn’t really use the spaces they design, otherwise they would have never missed to provide benches for walking people to rest. Especially the elderly and the obese.
You orc?
