Parking Cull And Pocket Parks For England’s Finest Street As Newcastle Plans Post-Pandemic Future – Forbes

Carlton Reid05:52am EDT How Grey Street could look soon. Newcastle City Council “As for the curve of Grey Street,” wrote poet John Betjeman, “I shall never forget seeing it to perfection, traffic-less on a misty Sunday morning.” That 1948 remark about the traffic-free perfection of one of England’s most beautiful streets could be about to […]

Carlton Reid05:52am EDT

How Grey Street could look soon.
Newcastle City Council
“As for the curve of Grey Street,” wrote poet John Betjeman, “I shall never forget seeing it to perfection, traffic-less on a misty Sunday morning.”

That 1948 remark about the traffic-free perfection of one of England’s most beautiful streets could be about to come at least partially true—many of the lucrative fee-generating parking spaces on Newcastle’s iconic Neoclassical street are to be removed, making room for a cycleway and more space for pedestrians. And it’s all thanks to COVID-19.

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