Roosi street was totally reconstructed two years ago. The street connects the downtown to the National Museum, so it was decided to make it as modern as possible. Many innovative for Tartu solutions were used. Let's check out how the street looks now.

First of all, reconstruction of Roosi street started the renovation of the whole neighborhood. The end of the street was a total chaos before, now this part of the town looks pretty.

This is usual, when pleasant public space start other positive processes. For example, a new apartment building was built at Roosi 49. We wrote about it recently.

New buildings are under construction.

Old houses are repaired.

A land for sale nearby.

A historical stable at the parallel street has got a new roof.

But historical planes' hangars still haven't found stable usage.

There are houses, that need reconstruction.

Quality of the street is good. No falls, broken plates nor other serious problems.

Except one part in front of the upside down house. Obviously this part wasn't intended for cars. Shouldn't the city or upside down house owner repair it?

The walking road is constructed correctly – higher than ground.

Here the road is partly defended form the ground and partly not.

The ground falls to the road, later the pedestrians and the rain bring it to the whole road. Muddy road is the result. Why this part wasn't defended entirely?

Different materials bring the variety. This is good.

The bad thing is, that the rain water runs to the road. For unknown reason the rain water almost never goes directly to the sewerage in Estonia.

The same problem here:

Local people tried to be smart in drive the water away.

But the result is the same – the water runs to the walking road, the pedestrians get their feet wet and obviously the road is slippy in the winter.

Street furniture looks fine, nothing is broken.

The historical water point is saved. But no water, we checkd out. The paint is partly worn off.

A small garden was planned here, where local ones could grow something. But still no garden beds.

So at first site it looks, that the street is more or less ok. But there is one huge problem. Parking.

Parking.

Parking...

Roosi street is one of the first ones, where parking posts were used to organize parking.

This is good decision. As practice shows – if parking area isn't physically limited, then the cars start to park on the grass, on the walking and bike roads etc.

The grass isn't physically defended. No signs as well.

A parking post obviously was here.

Seems, that the parking posts are not the strongest ones.

The plants grow here, but they have no great chances to survive.

If the city wants to keep the street in order, it has to invest in the physical limitation of parking. Improperly parked cars must be fined. This is not a popular solution. But, as European practice shows, this is the only solution, that works.

Or soon the parking at Roosi street will look like that:

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We also analyzed other roads before:
Bike road in Annelinn
Bike road near the railway