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"Cars are great to go between cities fast, but inside cities they should behave like guests" No, especially in north american cities where you can walk few pla
by jomamaxx 10y ago
"Cars are great to go between cities fast, but inside cities they should behave like guests"
No, especially in north american cities where you can walk few places, cares are another form of transit, like anything else.
Relatively few people actually ride bikes.
"Pedestrians, cyclists and public transportation are the most efficient mode of transportation inside a city" this is completely false in most situations, especially in North America.
You cannot reasonably walk 5Km to work every day and back. The vast majority of people live far from work.
Even with cities that have good public transit, it's not optimal in tons of cases.
Cars - or things like them - are going to stay. They are not going away.
- PeterSmit 10y agoYou're talking specifically about North American cities, where everything is designed around automobile usage. And that is the problem the article talks about. It has been designed with this goal in mind so much, that it results in lots of pedestrian and cyclist deaths. Cities that are not designed like this are much compacter, so distances become smaller. Commuting 5km by bicycle is fine, takes roughly 20 mins if the roads are decent. Using a tram or bus that has a decent frequency it will take roughly the same time, even including a few minutes of walking. See example: https://www.google.nl/maps/dir/52.1136289,5.0897208/52.0860586,5.1080626/@52.1008013,5.0659812,21797m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m2!4m1!3e1?hl=en https://www.google.nl/maps/dir/52.1136289,5.0897208/52.08605...