0 a road that is designed with special features to reduce the amount of traffic using it, or to make the traffic go slower:
As Grotenhuis put it "all traffic participants in a woonerf are considered equal, and... the pedestrian is a bit more equal than the others."
By law, in a Woonerf vehicles are restricted to walking pace.
The regulations introduced in Germany in 1980 for restraining traffic in residential roads were a straight translation of those adopted in the Netherlands' Woonerven.
Crucial to the success of woonerven is the marriage of law and design.
