woonerfとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

woonerf (複数形 woonerfs または woonerven)

1. (Canada) a street in which pedestrians and cyclists have priority over motorists.
   • 2007 July 29, Gregory Beyer, “Where Street, Sidewalk and Sanity Intersect”, in New York Times^[1]:

     He and his staff looked worldwide — to Trafalgar Square in London, to the Spanish Steps in Rome — and found that the designs best suited to the intersections were the Netherlands’ curbless woonerfs, which make no differentiation between street and sidewalk.

同意語

• (type of street): living street, (英国用法, Ireland) home zone, (米国用法) complete street, (Australia, NZ) shared zone