The Augustiner beer hall in Munich's main pedestrian zone is a favourite after-work meeting spot.

The Augustiner beer hall in Munich's main pedestrian zone is a favorite after-work meeting spot.

It would appear that this advocacy is working: one of Chennai's densest neighbourhoods is planning a pedestrian zone.

Turn left on Washington Street and right on Winter Street, riding through the pedestrian zone to reach Boston Common.

As part of the redevelopment the pedestrian zone around the Guildhall and Waterloo Place will be reopened to traffic.

Traders in Galway city have called for the rapid introduction of new sewers, water-pipes and paving to the pedestrian zone.

However, one reporter at Oakleigh in the city's southwest took pictures showing a bustling pedestrian zone outside a shopping centre this morning.

And Paris's police prefect canceled an open-air film festival as well as plans to turn the Champs Elysees boulevard into a summer pedestrian zone.

A walk through the old town's 300-meter-long (330-yard-long) pedestrian zone can take 40 minutes in peak season.

There are three options being looked at to make the city more of a pedestrian zone now there are fewer cars occupying the streets.

The trio won a competition to design a pedestrian zone in a small Slovakian town, which was considered for the Mies van der Rohe award.

Wednesday's attack at about 8:15am local time took place in a pedestrian zone near the soldier's base on the Place de Verdun in Levallois-Perret.

But, most pedestrian zones are easily-accessed, and they don't place four blocks of a major city on lockdown.

One recently completed project involved the installation of wide pedestrian zones to help create fire breaks in the older suburb of Nakanobu.

Starting this summer, a team of six officers on skates will patrol the Dutch city's pedestrian zones and the narrow streets of the tourist district.