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pedestrianise

alt. To designate (a street) for the use of pedestrians only, disallowing motor vehicles. vb. To designate (a street) for the use of pedestrians only, disallowing motor vehicles.

Usage examples of "pedestrianise".

The road has been pedestrianised and resurfaced in squalidly authentic mediaeval cobblestones.

But Miss Havisham's eyes were sharper than mine and we shot through the gap, bounced across a grass bank, skidded past the statue of Brunel, drove the wrong way down a one-way street, through a back alley, past the Carer's Monument and across the pedestrianised precinct to screech to a halt in front of a long queue for the Swindon Booktastic closing-down sale – just as the town clock struck twelve.

So a few miles from Foxglove, at a restaurant called The Engine, he transferred from Bry's car into a Foxglove security Jeep - the one vehicle that could go into the pedestrianised centre without raising suspicion.

THE SECURITY patrol was systematically scouring a section of suburbia, a convoy of armoured trucks infiltrating a pedestrianised shopping precinct, weaving its way between piles of debris, powdering broken glass beneath its wheels.