Another Reason We All Want To Live In Berkeley
Posted on | July 21, 2010 | No Comments
One of the reasons Berkeley is so wonderfully livable is the pedestrian-scale of its streets and neighborhoods. No matter where you might live, you are most likely a few blocks to a great shopping district, or maybe it’s just a stand-alone neighborhood market, but at minimum you are close to public transportation. How did we get so lucky? The simple answer is the fact that the city developed as a classic “street car suburb.”
Can you imagine all the major thoroughfares dominated by street car traffic, with only the occasional car? Here is a way to see it: take a ride along Oxford Street, then head east up Hearst Avenue, circa 1906. Just as the street car makes it to the University, the conductors have to strong-arm a fellow who won’t get out of the way–an early protester, perhaps?
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