Sparks Street is a pedestrian mall in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was a main street in Ottawa that was converted into an outdoor pedestrian street in 1967, making it the earliest such street or mall in Canada.
Large sidewalks in Sparks Street
Sparks Street at Bank Street
Sparks Street in 1909
Sparks Street in 1901
Pedestrian zones are areas of a city or town restricted to use by people on foot or human-powered transport such as bicycles, with non-emergency motor traffic not allowed. Converting a street or an area to pedestrian-only use is called pedestrianisation.
Vienna's first pedestrian zone on the Graben (2018)
Pedestrian mall in Lima, Peru
The Galerie Vivienne in Paris
Pedestrianized area in Times Square, New York City