One of the busy shopping streets in the town center.
Hjorring [pop. 24,000] is a regional destination for shopping and tourism. One of its busy shopping streets, Ostergade, runs east-west through the town center.
An experiment in 1986 established two sections of pedestrian streets in the shopping district. Interviews revealed that most supported pedestrian streets in the summertime, but also that traffic and parking conditions had deteriorated.
On the basis of this experiment two streets were redesigned so that they could be converted to pedestrian streets during the tourist and holiday seasons. Improvements were also made to ring roads around the town center, which reduced traffic on the shopping streets.
Shopping Street in Hjorring, Denmark
