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The mere presence of cars actively hurts walkability and increases the risk of accidents for pedestrians and cyclists. Cars need special roadways with expensiv
by KozmoNau7 7y ago
The mere presence of cars actively hurts walkability and increases the risk of accidents for pedestrians and cyclists.
Cars need special roadways with expensive construction methods, maintenance, signaling and provisions for parking their bulk.
This takes up huge amounts of space that could have been used for waking streets, bike paths and attentive urban spaces, instead of large expanses of boring black asphalt.
Ask a shop owner whether she would rather have thousands of people in cars driving by her store and not even look at it, or hundreds of pedestrians who stop and look at her display windows.
Ask a cafe owner whether he would prefer to have his outside seating right next to a major thoroughfare, or on a busy walking street.
Cars actively make environments hostile and uninviting to people.
- dzhiurgis 7y agoAgain, you are conflating city centre vs remaining city. If a shop owner has a shop next to a 4 lane road - what the hell was he thinking? I'm talking about creating boundary around downtown to which remaining of metro can travel to by either means.
- KozmoNau7 7y agoI am talking about the general metro area, not just the city centre. In a lot of cases (at least here) the shops were there first, and the thoroughfare grew in use next to them. This road cuts directly throuhh the middle of the entire city. Specifically a stream that had decent walkable paths alongside was put underground and a big thoroughfare put on top of it. I'm part of an initiative to reopen the stream and put the traffic in a tunnel underneath, in order to create a park/urban space for people, rather than cars. I want the entire city to be pedestrian first, bicycles second and cars dead last.