MobilityMikeMar 6, 2023
Brent Toderian

It’s REALLY important for everyone to understand the truth that designing your city for cars fails for everyone, including drivers. Designing a city with CHOICES in how to get around works better for everyone, including drivers.

Let’s spread this message as much as we can.

#cities #cars #choices #urbanism #walking #biking #PublicTransit pic via Eric Sehr.

Mar 4, 2023 at 3:45pmWeb
Show threadSarah RothMar 4, 2023
@BrentToderian If you design your city for cars, there is no reason for humans to go there. It is as simple as that.
Show threadDaigoro Toyama Mar 4, 2023
@sarahroth @BrentToderian FWIW I naturally avoid those car-oriented cities simply because they're hardly accessible for those like me who walk, bike or take transit. 😅
Show threadSarah RothMar 4, 2023
@daihard @BrentToderian I once moved to a very transit friendly city unaware of it (and even gleefully owning 2 cars during it) But after that I was very careful to have my next destination have the same features ;-) And get rid of the cars for good.
Show threadDoomsdaysCWMar 4, 2023
@BrentToderian Have you interacted with @nickkauf ? I think you two have a lot in common!
Show threadNickKauf Mar 4, 2023
@DoomsdaysCW @BrentToderian Twitter urbanism old-timers, yea. love Brents post, quality and quantity!
Show threadSimon BrookeMar 5, 2023
@BrentToderian no one is a driver all the time. Eventually, everyone has to get out of their car – and the need a safe, congenial and navigable environment when they do.
Show threadein kleines zMar 5, 2023
@BrentToderian
It's sort of funny that this pic is from Berlin, a city that is very much designed for cars. Most sidewalks here are not wide, most bikeways are unsafe, only some paint on the road in the dooring zone of masses of parked cars, often blocked by more illegally parked cars, plus they will simply end without warning with nowhere to cycle on except on the busy road between the cars, and the public transport is too expensive. Berlin is already starting to have serious problems to keep commercial transport working because there is way too much individual car traffic and it's about to make inner city mobility collapse. They're building more Autobahn through Berlin right now and we all know this will only make it worse.
Show threadSam PearsonMar 6, 2023
@BrentToderian
ALSO important to understand that non-cities designed entirely for cars fail for large segments of the population though often in less visible ways. It's more about municipal finances and accessibility throughout the lifecycle. Eventually most people and communities come to realize it as they move through the progression, but it is too often perceived purely as a personal or local sorrow.
Show threadChristine BellMar 6, 2023
@BrentToderian
In #Walthamstow I am now able to go for a walk to the Town Hall with my elderly mother. The fountains used to be a roundabout so cars could get to front of town hall. Now it is a relaxing traffic free zone