streetside
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- Alongside or near a street.
- 2009 April 3, Guy Trebay, “From High Street to SoHo, a Club Ethos”, in New York Times[1]:
- “Topshop is not as cheap as H & M, but it is fantastic visually and the store looks fun,” said Fern Penn, a SoHo retailer who, driven back by the streetside chaos, said she would return after the initial hubbub had died down.
- 2009 April 4, Donna Laporte, “Architect hopes to bring West Coast feel to Toronto”, in Toronto Star[2]:
- Cheng had to pull the building back to be able to plant trees close to the property line, because of the maze of utility lines at streetside.
- 2022 September 6, David Zipper, “How Japan Won its ‘Traffic War’”, in Bloomberg Terminal[3]:
- In Japan, automobile owners must obtain a shako shomei sho, or “garage certificate,” showing that they have secured a place to store the vehicle overnight at their residence or in a parking garage; leaving it streetside is not an option. The expense and hassle of that requirement acts as a deterrent to car ownership, and an inducement to travel by other modes like transit or a bicycle.