Holbein 0-1 Traffic
Men, and sadly only occasionally women, have been wrestling with how best to manage our built environment for hundreds of years - story 5
This made me smile.
London is a relatively young city. Thank you to the Romans for their part in our emergence as the world’s greatest. (If you want to understand the Roman beginnings and more, then I recommend this brilliant map-based explanation by Daniel Steiner.)
It came as surprise to realise that it has been battling traffic for nearly half its life.
I was reading one of my favourite Substacks, Londonist: Time Machine, and came across a fabulous article about something that is no longer with us.
The full story is here. Well worth the read.
So epic buildings lost. Magical landscapes transformed.
Street widening was the order of the day. Roads all over the city were choked with London’s first great traffic problem, as medieval byways struggled to cope with a growth in Imperial commerce
Our built environment is always changing. Very few things are sacred. More often than not, for at least 400 years years, the traffic - in this case horses - win.