Post date: Oct 08, 2015 7:14:44 PM
The city of Venice has been trying to fix the issue of pedestrian congestion for a while, inside the city in addition to how they get into the city. I found a new book that writes about green cities in Europe and includes a chapter on Venice. This chapter talks about a 1996 initiative called the Master Plan. This entailed changing the way that both tourists and residents enter the city. The goal was to create effectively two entrances, one for tourists that would contain most of the congestion and chaos, while a separate 'commuter' rail would be residents or people who worked in the city, allowing them to move in and out of the city more smoothly. Unfortunately, this solution was never fully accomplished. There are a finite number of ways that is possible to enter the city thorough, and while this makes it easier to evaluate how many people are in the city at any given time, it creates bottlenecks in the case of an emergency, and extereme inconvenience on a daily basis for anyone working in the city.
-AP
http://s1.downloadmienphi.net/file/downloadfile7/192/1379446.pdf#page=136