Beth With An Ebike
Brent ToderianNever forget, if you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan cities for people and places, you get people and places.
Plan for the city you want.
HT Fred Kent, PPS.
TheOneSwitCapitalism wants you to buy cars, so the streets and citys are planned for. Work and buy is the motto.
🎓 Doc Freemo 
🇳🇱@BrentToderian Then what do we do if we want both?
Preslav Rachev@BrentToderian @danielquinn priorities :)
Joost@BrentToderian currently cities plan for people and shops and drinks, and forgetting about accessibility. People in wheelchairs are kept out of cities. The city of Utrecht even states: 'everybody can walk'. It is unlawful, but it happens nevertheless.
Thurman@BrentToderian
I was in Lyon France a few weeks ago and was amazed at the transformation they've done in the past twenty years prioritizing bikes over cars. My favorite city in France. It took a determined mayor who really energized the movement.
I was in Lyon France a few weeks ago and was amazed at the transformation they've done in the past twenty years prioritizing bikes over cars. My favorite city in France. It took a determined mayor who really energized the movement.
Drunemeton@BrentToderian The Embarcadero & Fell Street off-ramp redos after the ‘89 quake in SF are prime examples of this:
https://bzotto.medium.com/hayes-valley-then-now-c3f1bf17e227
BryanAs a professional planner, I agree with two caveats.
1) Most planners have very little influence over their local built environment and the most important changes go unmade due to community pressure and electeds. We are unable to be advocates as public servants, only educators.
2) We have spent the last 100 years building low-density sprawl. Probably 90% of Americans don’t live in neighborhoods conducive to living their lives car-light let alone car-free. Change takes time.