There has been some recent buzz about this interesting pattern in Europe. I have been thinking that as a piece of Living Urbanism the pattern of landscaping tramways could be improved by using native ground covers. Rain gardens could be added to catch storm water run off as well. You can see more photos here and there is some other interesting urban design ideas here from Monocle Magazine.
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Those are very slick. My guess is though we’d have far to many regulations in the US that wouldn’t allow it.