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Sure. Were they as wide? Do we need 4 lane stroads if most commuters moved to bicycles, public transit or walking?
by goosedragons 3y ago
Sure. Were they as wide? Do we need 4 lane stroads if most commuters moved to bicycles, public transit or walking?
- rootusrootus 3y agoThere are considerably more people today than there were before cars, so it's hard to say how wide the roads would need to be if we could make bicycles, public transit, and walking a functional equivalent for cars.
- ajuc 3y agoWe don't have to guess. Netherlands has 500 people per km2. USA has 36. Road that connects 3 biggest cities in Netherlands has 3 lanes in each direction: https://www.google.com/maps/@52.1822053,4.5947627,3a,75y,47.43h,68.18t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjWbzg1ULl7plGJgQdewN-A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/@52.1822053,4.5947627,3a,75y,47.... Your average road in Netherlands looks like this: https://www.google.com/maps/@52.1968565,4.592548,3a,75y,58.84h,70.23t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sJErVQHv6sBE0By1yjRNClw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DJErVQHv6sBE0By1yjRNClw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D170.54272%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/@52.1968565,4.592548,3a,75y,58.8... You cannot directly translate between countries with such difference in population density obviously, but if anything - the more people USA has - the bigger gains are there to be realized by switching to more efficient mode of transport.
- paconbork 3y agoThe roads in this old video of NYC still look pretty wide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXRnGwbrnOo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXRnGwbrnOo Mind you there's some cars in the videos, but they aren't any bigger than the horse-drawn carriages that roads had been accommodating well before that.