Die Gesellschaft ändert sich und mit ihr das Mobilitätsverhalten. Wir stehen am Anfang der größten Änderungen im Verkehrsbereich seit Beginn der Massenmotorisierung. Auch weil das Klimaabkommen von Paris das Ende der fossilen Energie eingeläutet hat. Doch der öffentliche Raum wird noch vom Auto dominiert, Richtlinien und Verordnungen sind nach wie vor auf den motorisierten Individualverkehr ausgerichtet. Unser Verkehrssystem ist bei weitem noch nicht zukunftstauglich.
@resilienceSci 🙏for helpful link. I'm still none the wiser on broader traffic flow, but found this very positive assessment from a foreign resident's perspective, 20 years on:
https://thebentway.ca/stories/cheonggyecheon-rip-it-up-and-start-again/
& the 2011 'Cheonggyecheon Stream Restoration Project' case study referred to in the article, which explains the benefits to the immediate neighbourhood in the first 5 years 2003-8, is now at
https://www.landscapeperformance.org/case-study-briefs/cheonggyecheon-stream-restoration-project
#Cheonggyecheon #HighwayRemoval #LivableCity #Seoul @BrentToderian
After a massive public-works project in the 2000s, a stream once again flows through Seoul. In this personal essay, Andrew Russeth admires Cheonggyecheon, a 10.9km long stream and modern public recreation space in downtown Seoul, South Korea.
(12/n) Another view showing the impact of ongoing highway and parking lot removal discussed in post 10/n.
(Photo from this week via City of New Haven. Historical photo of the same area after a highway and parking lots were built in 1959). #newhaven #nhv #connecticut #urbanism #cities #urbanplanning #highwayremoval
[When] “road capacity increases by 1 percent, the number of cars on the road after a few years also increases by 1 percent.”
The Katy Freeway in #Houston is “one of the widest highways in the world with 26 lanes.” Within five years of its expansion, “peak hour travel times on the freeway were longer than before the expansion.”
Photo: NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/us/widen-highways-traffic.html #urbanplanning #highwayremoval #traffic #texas
The most pleasant and walkable #cities in the United States do not have limited access highways in their downtowns.
4 aerial photos: #Madison, #NewHaven, #AnnArbor (with #Hartford provided for contrast).
Although it may not be apparent to a driver, few businesses or human activities can succeed in areas close to the noise, traffic, and pollution of large highways. Planners should be working on urban #highwayremoval, not expansions.
By Eric Brelsford and Alan McConchie It’s hard to believe that it was only one a month ago when the Ever Given container ship got stuck in the Suez Canal. As cartographers, one of our favorite memes from the Ever Given era was the Ever Given Ever Ywhere tool built by Garrett Dash Nelson, that...
The entire city of Florence, Italy could fit within this highway interchange in Atlanta.
#firenze #urbanplanning #urbanism #highwayremoval #cities #walkability #sustainability #climatecrisis #sprawl #atlanta
(10/n) 13 lanes of highways, off-ramps, and frontage roads built during the "urban renewal" period ▶️ Two new 10-14 story towers with 1,000,000 square feet of laboratory and retail space, built on top of the removed highway and a narrower frontage road with grade-separate bike lanes.
New Haven
Photos: Google Streetview (2011), me (today) #nhv #newhaven #connecticut #urbanism #cities #highways #highwayremoval #urbanplanning
Sky Rose 🏳️⚧️ (they/them)
Lyle Solla-Yates
VCÖ - Mobilität mit Zukunft
Claire Barnes
Mark Abraham
