What if I told you there was a single intervention we could deliver in our cities that would cool them during heatwaves, reduce flooding, scrub pollutants from the air, boost biodiversity, improve public health, and even reduce crime? You wouldn't believe me. But it's true.
To paraphrase Enrique Peñalosa:
A plowed and salted cycle track is a symbol that a child on a $30 bicycle is equally important as an adult inside a $30,000 car.
346 transport experts say walking, bikes and buses are the way forward. Not electric cars, not self-driving cars, not flying cars, and certainly not SUVs...
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Do you ever look a some - many - European cities and think we've been conditioned in the U.K to expect that incredibly grey, car-dominated, and polluted cities and towns are as good as it gets? Because I do. Hard to believe there are peope fighting to keep things the same.
@ken2leam@Warwick_DC And how many people were involved in this from start to finally installing it and not one checked if you could actually get a bike through. 🤷🏻♂️
@ken2leam@Warwick_DC And that’s not even a cargo bike, tricycle or adapted bike. Can you imagine the uproar if they built a road bridge cars couldn’t pass through or a pedestrian bridge people couldn’t walk across.
@Chairmanbenr@StratfordDC How did anyone walk down the M&S side of Bridge St during lockdown and didn’t think this has to be permanent now?
Do you think the people who make these decisions travel everywhere by car?
If you’re a city that’s planning to remove infrastructure for safe walking & biking that was installed during #COVID19 because “the pandemic is over” (it’s not, not by far) or because of “public outcry” from drivers, that’s the opposite of good leadership. It’s bad following.
Just 20 years ago, cars could freely enter and park in Delft’s historic core.
Then a center-left coalition narrowly (19-18 votes) passed an autoluwe binnenstad (‘low-car city center’) policy.
Now not a single resident or merchant misses the days when cars choked their streets.
The United Kingdom has been testing noise cameras, similar to photo radar, to detect and ticket excessively loud vehicles on the road. This could help improve quality of life in urban neighbourhoods in every city.
https://t.co/dmajJJZdYJ
@Blissahb @strat_observer@StratfordDC They’re only talking about pedestrianising a few streets right in the centre. No one is talking about stopping people driving into town. Surely you agree it’s been a breath of fresh air to be able to walk to the shops in the centre without the risk of being run down by a car?