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> If you want people to not drive, you have to give them really good active travel choices that enable people to make that choice of their own volition. A good
by snthd 9y ago
> If you want people to not drive, you have to give them really good active travel choices that enable people to make that choice of their own volition.
A good choice is essential, but it's not enough. The choice has to be better, to the extent of nerfing the alternatives. See Stevenage where they had both options - driving is still hugely dominant. http://www.roadswerenotbuiltforcars.com/stevenage/ http://www.roadswerenotbuiltforcars.com/stevenage/
- walshemj 9y agoErr all the post ww2 "new towns" where predicated on mass car ownership see Milton Keynes where many areas don't have proper sidewalks
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- snthd 9y agoFrom the article I linked to: > While most cycle path advocates and cynics like to argue over the merits and demerits of the duff ‘red ways’ of Milton Keynes, very few pay any attention to Stevenage. This is odd because Stevenage’s cycleway network was built before the one at Milton Keynes, and was built as an intrinsic and key part of the New Town plan, not an afterthought, as at Milton Keynes. Throughout the 1970s Stevenage was held up as proof that the UK could build a Dutch-style cycle network. An article in New Scientist magazine in 1973 claimed that “Stevenage cycleways and cycle underpasses [are] premiere exhibits…[in a] traffic revolution.”