woonerf
noun [ C ] geography specialized (also Woonerf) uk/ˈvuː.nɜːf/ us/ˈvuː.nɜː˞f/ woonerven or woonerfs
设有减缓车速的设备的道路
a road that is designed with special features to reduce the amount of traffic using it, or to make the traffic go slower
Woonerf is Dutch for "living street", and refers to a new way of designing streets to be people-friendly open spaces. Woonerf是荷兰语“活的街道”的意思，指的是将街道设计成方便人们生活的开放空间的一种新方式。
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- As Grotenhuis put it "all traffic participants in a woonerf are considered equal, and... the pedestrian is a bit more equal than the others."
- By law, in a Woonerf vehicles are restricted to walking pace.
- The regulations introduced in Germany in 1980 for restraining traffic in residential roads were a straight translation of those adopted in the Netherlands' Woonerven.
- Crucial to the success of woonerven is the marriage of law and design.