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Nope, the article says "Accordingly, says Milan Mayor Beppe Sala, the city plans to maintain its metro system’s capacity at less than two-thirds of its pre-pan

Nope, the article says "Accordingly, says Milan Mayor Beppe Sala, the city plans to maintain its metro system’s capacity at less than two-thirds of its pre-pandemic activity. Instead of the 1.4 million average trips it saw daily before the pandemic, it will accommodate a maximum daily ridership of 400,000." Instead, they're focusing on supporting walking and cycling. "As a result, Milan is going big on cycling and walking. Over the summer, the city core will be partly remodeled to give over 22 miles (35 kilometers) of road space previously used by cars to bikes and pedestrians. Those cars that are allowed into the center must adhere to a new reduced 30 kilometers per hour speed limit. The aim is to make traffic more fluid and give pedestrians more space to spread out safely."

jariel 6y ago
This is misleading - the city controls supply, not demand. By cutting service in specific routes, they're probably just going to increase density on them. The issue is less about 'net capacity / ridership' as much as literally density on each ride. Paradoxically, reducing density comes with increasing capacity. Cities/central planners do this kind of thing all the time, they change some thing over here and think that people's behaviour will change. Sometimes it does - but people still need to get to work, pick up their kids, etc. and if the choice is not public transport, it's often 'car'. Again, creating 'more supply' of biking routes may move the needle but it doesn't change the fact you live 12km from the office and biking is not practical for many people in those circumstances.
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- Symbiote 6y ago
  There is nothing in the article to suggest they're reducing service. There's also nothing in your comment to suggest you read the article, so I don't think you're aware of what's planned. > the floors of metro cars and buses will be marked out with circles showing passengers the right level of distance to maintain. If the system looks like it will exceed the passenger numbers that makes this level of distancing possible, station entrances will be temporarily closed until congestion eases. + school times changed, shops open later, etc.
  - jariel 6y ago
    "There is nothing in the article to suggest they're reducing service" "Accordingly, says Milan Mayor Beppe Sala, the city plans to maintain its metro system’s capacity at less than two-thirds of its pre-pandemic activity. Instead of the 1.4 million average trips it saw daily before the pandemic, it will accommodate a maximum daily ridership of 400,000."" Is literally from the article and the comment I was responding to. Please read the article before complaining to others that they may not have read the article.
    - Symbiote 6y ago
      > By cutting service in specific routes You invented that bit. It is perhaps clearer in the original announcement from the head of the Milanese transport authority: "Our metro carried around 1,400,000 people every day. To maintain a distance of one meter, while keeping the maximum service, as in the height of the winter season, this number will have to drop to 25-30%." https://www.radiolombardia.it/2020/04/21/granelli-a-milano-piano-straordinario-di-piste-ciclabili/ https://www.radiolombardia.it/2020/04/21/granelli-a-milano-p...
- thomaslkjeldsen 6y ago
  > This is misleading - the city controls supply, not demand. Well. Relevant quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand "Trying to cure traffic congestion by adding more capacity is like trying to cure obesity by loosening your belt."
  - kortilla 6y ago
    Shitty quote. Induced demand is a lazy intellectual concept that fails to realize that congestion follows a standard supply and demand curve and the price is just being hidden because the monetary cost is usually free for everyone so it’s all based on time cost. So you add supply, you capture more of the demand that has been there at a lower cost. You didn’t induce shit. You will eventually add enough supply that everyone will be satisfied (see every road not suffering from congestion issues). ”Trying to cure a toilet paper shortage by producing more toilet paper is like trying to cure obesity by loosening your belt.”
    - chriswphoto 6y ago
      Because we don’t charge for roads, users “pay” in congestion delays, so as we widen roads more drivers can use the road at the same “price” measured in minutes of delay. In some cases You might say that increased capacity induced hesitant drivers to drive.
      - bluGill 6y ago
        That is the point. There are people who want to go somewhere but congestion is making them not go. Eventually you get a head of it and things are free flowing while everyone gets where they want to go. In middle of nowhere rural area everything is this way. In big dense cities you would need 30+ levels of bridges (at much great expense per user than rural gravel roads). I will fully agree that cities should build something other than bridges and parking garages. However induced demand is not a factor because cities that are not ahead of so called induced demand are leaving behind (part of) the great advantage of a cities over rural areas: the vast amount of different places you can get to in a short time.
- JustFinishedBSG 6y ago
  12 Km is nothing by bike
- ProZsolt 6y ago
  12km is 30-35 mins on a bike. If you're elderly or less fit you can buy an electrical bike.
lbeltrame 6y ago
> the city plans to maintain its metro system’s capacity at less than two-thirds of its pre-pandemic activity. As a resident of Milan, I find this rather displeasing. I don't own a car (and have no plans to own one), and I exclusively depend on the metro + trains to get to work, which is too far away for serious walking or even cycling. FTR: it's actually far easier to go there (at least from where I live) with public transport than walking , cycling, and even with a car. Even at full capacity trains are already packed, and I'm afraid that this will make matters worse than before (example: at some point last month metro lines cut rides to < 50%, and were hastily pushed above that again because trains were too crowded even for the decreased ridership, people who could not work from home and had to go to work instead). Also, what happens if it rains?
- simongray 6y ago
  > Also, what happens if it rains? I'm from Copenhagen. Almost two thirds of us use our bikes to get around. The weather is incredibly shifty on this island and during autumn and winter it rains pretty much every day. Not always all day, but there's a high chance it will rain during your daily commute. So what do all the people here do? To cope with the weather we have developed advanced technology that negates the effects of rain. It's called: the raincoat.
  - paganel 6y ago
    Not all of Europe is Copengahen when it comes to climate, quite the contrary (even though that is very hard to understand even for some of the people I talk to here in Bucharest). Not sure about how rain manifests itself in Milan but summer rains here in Bucharest can be quite the thing, one minute you're minding your own business and two minutes later you can soaking wet if you had dared stay in said summer rain for too long. Something like this [1] or this [2] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYtYcV-S_0M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYtYcV-S_0M [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e4dxzpZCZ0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e4dxzpZCZ0
    - simongray 6y ago
      There's plenty of heavy showers during summer in Denmark too.

jariel 6y ago

This is misleading - the city controls supply, not demand. By cutting service in specific routes, they're probably just going to increase density on them. The issue is less about 'net capacity / ridership' as much as literally density on each ride. Paradoxically, reducing density comes with increasing capacity. Cities/central planners do this kind of thing all the time, they change some thing over here and think that people's behaviour will change. Sometimes it does - but people still need to get to work, pick up their kids, etc. and if the choice is not public transport, it's often 'car'. Again, creating 'more supply' of biking routes may move the needle but it doesn't change the fact you live 12km from the office and biking is not practical for many people in those circumstances.

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Symbiote 6y ago
There is nothing in the article to suggest they're reducing service. There's also nothing in your comment to suggest you read the article, so I don't think you're aware of what's planned. > the floors of metro cars and buses will be marked out with circles showing passengers the right level of distance to maintain. If the system looks like it will exceed the passenger numbers that makes this level of distancing possible, station entrances will be temporarily closed until congestion eases. + school times changed, shops open later, etc.
- jariel 6y ago
  "There is nothing in the article to suggest they're reducing service" "Accordingly, says Milan Mayor Beppe Sala, the city plans to maintain its metro system’s capacity at less than two-thirds of its pre-pandemic activity. Instead of the 1.4 million average trips it saw daily before the pandemic, it will accommodate a maximum daily ridership of 400,000."" Is literally from the article and the comment I was responding to. Please read the article before complaining to others that they may not have read the article.
  - Symbiote 6y ago
    > By cutting service in specific routes You invented that bit. It is perhaps clearer in the original announcement from the head of the Milanese transport authority: "Our metro carried around 1,400,000 people every day. To maintain a distance of one meter, while keeping the maximum service, as in the height of the winter season, this number will have to drop to 25-30%." https://www.radiolombardia.it/2020/04/21/granelli-a-milano-piano-straordinario-di-piste-ciclabili/ https://www.radiolombardia.it/2020/04/21/granelli-a-milano-p...
thomaslkjeldsen 6y ago
> This is misleading - the city controls supply, not demand. Well. Relevant quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand "Trying to cure traffic congestion by adding more capacity is like trying to cure obesity by loosening your belt."
- kortilla 6y ago
  Shitty quote. Induced demand is a lazy intellectual concept that fails to realize that congestion follows a standard supply and demand curve and the price is just being hidden because the monetary cost is usually free for everyone so it’s all based on time cost. So you add supply, you capture more of the demand that has been there at a lower cost. You didn’t induce shit. You will eventually add enough supply that everyone will be satisfied (see every road not suffering from congestion issues). ”Trying to cure a toilet paper shortage by producing more toilet paper is like trying to cure obesity by loosening your belt.”
  - chriswphoto 6y ago
    Because we don’t charge for roads, users “pay” in congestion delays, so as we widen roads more drivers can use the road at the same “price” measured in minutes of delay. In some cases You might say that increased capacity induced hesitant drivers to drive.
    - bluGill 6y ago
      That is the point. There are people who want to go somewhere but congestion is making them not go. Eventually you get a head of it and things are free flowing while everyone gets where they want to go. In middle of nowhere rural area everything is this way. In big dense cities you would need 30+ levels of bridges (at much great expense per user than rural gravel roads). I will fully agree that cities should build something other than bridges and parking garages. However induced demand is not a factor because cities that are not ahead of so called induced demand are leaving behind (part of) the great advantage of a cities over rural areas: the vast amount of different places you can get to in a short time.
JustFinishedBSG 6y ago
12 Km is nothing by bike
ProZsolt 6y ago
12km is 30-35 mins on a bike. If you're elderly or less fit you can buy an electrical bike.

lbeltrame 6y ago

> the city plans to maintain its metro system’s capacity at less than two-thirds of its pre-pandemic activity. As a resident of Milan, I find this rather displeasing. I don't own a car (and have no plans to own one), and I exclusively depend on the metro + trains to get to work, which is too far away for serious walking or even cycling. FTR: it's actually far easier to go there (at least from where I live) with public transport than walking , cycling, and even with a car. Even at full capacity trains are already packed, and I'm afraid that this will make matters worse than before (example: at some point last month metro lines cut rides to < 50%, and were hastily pushed above that again because trains were too crowded even for the decreased ridership, people who could not work from home and had to go to work instead). Also, what happens if it rains?

simongray 6y ago
> Also, what happens if it rains? I'm from Copenhagen. Almost two thirds of us use our bikes to get around. The weather is incredibly shifty on this island and during autumn and winter it rains pretty much every day. Not always all day, but there's a high chance it will rain during your daily commute. So what do all the people here do? To cope with the weather we have developed advanced technology that negates the effects of rain. It's called: the raincoat.
- paganel 6y ago
  Not all of Europe is Copengahen when it comes to climate, quite the contrary (even though that is very hard to understand even for some of the people I talk to here in Bucharest). Not sure about how rain manifests itself in Milan but summer rains here in Bucharest can be quite the thing, one minute you're minding your own business and two minutes later you can soaking wet if you had dared stay in said summer rain for too long. Something like this [1] or this [2] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYtYcV-S_0M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYtYcV-S_0M [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e4dxzpZCZ0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e4dxzpZCZ0
  - simongray 6y ago
    There's plenty of heavy showers during summer in Denmark too.