Grass-lined green tramlines for Sheffield?
Yesterday, Stuart Grimshaw (@Stubbs on Twitter) sent this link to inhabitat.com showing European trams and trains travelling through cities on green beds of grass and suggested how good it would look in Sheffield.
I agree, and think it would be a great way to enforce our greenest city credentials. As it puts it on inhabitat.com:
From Barcelona to the Czech Republic, Frankfurt, St-Etienne and Strasbourg, these public transit greenways are showing the potential of incorporating landscaping into good urban design.
How would it actually look in Sheffield? Here are a couple of slightly rushed mockups based on two Flickr photos (thank you iwouldstay and Xerones) that give you an idea:
Or, given the northern climate, would our beds or grass soon turn into urban mud baths?
