I've been idly browsing Brighton on Street View and I have been taking the way the city I live in today too much for granted, holy shit.
I think I might have liked this city a lot less if I lived here in the previous decade, the amount of improvements to the urban environment that have taken place in the past 5-7 years are pretty impressive.
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A lot of these changes are focused on London Road/A23 because that's what I initially picked up on.
In this section, it was a car sewer with a massively long gate preventing pedestrian crossings. It's been converted to a 20mph road exclusively for buses, taxis and bikes that pedestrians can cross freely. Way more space has been given to pedestrians on either side too.
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Sometime around the onset of COVID-19 the city council introduced hastily made cycle lanes across the seafront, which remain to this day. This is the nicer section on Madeira Drive. (I hate cycling on King's Road)
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Caius Nocturne🌿🌙