Helen CzerskiThe 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
inaforest@helenczerski be nice to see some effort put into rural transport solutions, too, often forgotten or overlooked, we don't all live in a city OR work at desk-based activities..public transport in the burbs and beyond is a joke with a terrible punchline
Dave Mc@inaforest @helenczerski cars have enabled people to live in rural areas and the 'burbs. At least some of that behaviour has to be reversed over the next few decades.
Liz Church@dailyturnout @inaforest @helenczerski yes. But they worked locally. They didn't commute an hour into the city to work.
@guigsy @dailyturnout @helenczerski worth mentioning, not everyone living rurally commutes for an hour! There's more to living than the city, my friend.
Magnus Ahltorp@inaforest @guigsy @dailyturnout @helenczerski But if you live rurally, and don’t commute into a city, why would you care about measures limiting car traffic in the cities?
@ahltorp @guigsy @dailyturnout @helenczerski why would I not, for heavens sake, the planet isn't just me
@inaforest @guigsy @dailyturnout @helenczerski Yes, that’s sort of the point of the original post. We need to limit car traffic, especially in the cities. If people don’t do it by themselves, they have to be nudged or forced.