The evidence that cars don’t work as primary mass transport in cities is everywhere: traffic jams, air pollution, accident rates, the shocking fraction of city space taken up by parking spaces, safety barriers/bollards etc. This 100 year experiment should be declared over, and we should put proper effort into the systems that HAVE been shown to work and scale: walking, cycling, e-cargo bikes, cheap/accessible/reliable public transport. This “argument” about LTNs is just lazy delay. #LTN #cities
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The beeching cuts and the ripping up of tram lines in the 60s has a lot to answer for
@eliza @helenczerski So-called "car dependency" didn't happen by accident, it is the result of policy
@eliza @helenczerski Beeching's vision was that every household would have access to a car. Now many households have multiple cars. People that work in towns now live in the middle of nowhere. Cars have become so cheap, people don't think about driving a mile. I don't think the planners from 70 years ago envisaged these changes.
@guigsy @eliza @helenczerski they all thought we'd have flying cars by now so the traffic could go vertical