Geez, I wish I could get a job at a think-tank. It really is money for old rope.
That’s strange because most other EU cities have wide avenues that they use for electric trams, and electric bikes and scooter lanes. I wonder if they actually did any research at all about how other cities use these wide roads? Or if they just all got pissed and made it up, which is what it looks like.
I think this is a great idea, although not new.
When we built our roads and redesigned our cities in the post war era we dramatically lowered the density of our cities too. Which just means everybody has to get in their car anyway.
Most of this ‘undensification’ and redistribution of populace into expanding urban sprawl replaced the centres with very generous big tarmac lanes and junctions and roundabouts, or pointlessly wide motorways. This was in anticipation of total motor car transport- and they got it deeply wrong.
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Geez, I wish I could get a job at a think-tank. It really is money for old rope.
That’s strange because most other EU cities have wide avenues that they use for electric trams, and electric bikes and scooter lanes. I wonder if they actually did any research at all about how other cities use these wide roads? Or if they just all got pissed and made it up, which is what it looks like.
I think this is a great idea, although not new.
When we built our roads and redesigned our cities in the post war era we dramatically lowered the density of our cities too. Which just means everybody has to get in their car anyway.
Most of this ‘undensification’ and redistribution of populace into expanding urban sprawl replaced the centres with very generous big tarmac lanes and junctions and roundabouts, or pointlessly wide motorways. This was in anticipation of total motor car transport- and they got it deeply wrong.