Road Diet: Reducing Lanes for Pedestrians and Green Belts

Illustrate a Taiwanese four-lane road reallocated into a calmer cross-section without widening the right of way. Show two through lanes retained at a disciplined 3.0 to 3.25 metre width, a central turning lane or planted median added, a protected bicycle lane inserted behind a buffer, and the leftover width given to widened sidewalks with a new row of street trees. Make the reallocation legible by composing the full cross-section across the frame, with each zone clearly distinguished by surface material: asphalt carriageway, coloured bicycle lane, granite kerb, permeable paved sidewalk. Show traffic still flowing but visibly slower and more orderly, cyclists using the protected lane, and pedestrians on the widened sidewalk. Include the honest Taiwanese context — mixed-use buildings, scooter parking bays, bus stop, overhead directional signs. Use a slightly elevated view from a pedestrian bridge or upper floor looking along the road, bright daylight, photorealistic materials, and a documentary tone that makes the before-and-after logic obvious.