What looks nice locally, but it won't work in our road . . .

This is a two-way cycle-way on a one-way road 

On Ronalds Road, up near Highbury Fields, there's this two-way cycle way on the one-way road. As you can see there's quite a lot of lovely specially-made planters up there. They're about half a metre deep, and that's enough for trees and shrubs.

If our road was ever made one way, then there just might be room for a narrowed roadway and wide pavements, so that these substantial planters would fit.

Alternatively, if we were to give up a bit of our parking strip, then we'd have enough space (over 3.0 m wide) to install one of these bespoke planters.

This begs the question 'How much do these planters cost to make and install ?

Who wants one ? Who wants to lose a car-parking space near their dwelling ?

Tree pit on the pavement

Again on Ronalds Road, this is a lovely planter area around the tree pit. It'll never work in our road, although it looks pretty nifty, because our pavements are never more than 1.8 m (the old six feet) wide.

It works here as the property behind has a rounded boundary, and there's enough room to walk behind the tree pit on that pavement behind.

It would work in our road if we had a widened pavement with a tree pit/ planter area in the parking strip (as I showed in a n earlier post; that's over on Monsell Road, if you'd like to pop over a have a quick gander at it).