Hear me out… what if we *didn’t* allow car traffic in every corner of every city?
What if we reclaimed some of our most valuable public space (in this case - a parkway near a lake) and ensured they were safe & comfortable for everyone who wants to walk, bike & roll?
What if we reclaimed some of our most valuable public space (in this case - a parkway near a lake) and ensured they were safe & comfortable for everyone who wants to walk, bike & roll?
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It did for several months in 2020!
I loved it and want to bring it back - even if it’s just seasonal.
If they don’t drive, the people who drive them use the other streets to get them around.
If they use a wheelchair, they park in any of the hundreds of taxpayer subsidized parking spaces & roll around the lake on safer paths.
That includes those in wheelchairs (motorized & not), scooters, adaptive bikes & we have a pedicab that picks up seniors & those with mobility needs to ride around the lake.
We closed this parkway to cars for several months in 2020 and it went great.
Def not suggesting removing cars form areas where we’ve forced car dependency like that!
The parkway pictured is in a city.
Everyone who wants to live in a city that’s accessible for all modes (not just cars) should be able to afford it.
Cycles on the road, cycles on the path and people walking on the road and in cycle lanes.
Everyone deserves to be able to each in safely.
The upshot is that: (1) greenbelt and non-motorized vehicle transits implicate public health and safety; (2) expansion promotes better health and safety; and (3) expansion's economic benefits FAR outweighs its costs.
Agreed we need way more affordable housing in cities!
Cars are currently allowed on our parkways (left lane here). I think they should be banned from this space.
Public transit and density are critical to make walk/bike/roll work well.
We have both here, which is great (though always room for improvement).
You know? All that debt everyone keeps whining about? The hundreds of trillion$ of public AND private sector debt?
Cars can't pay it down they can only add to it. More cars = more debt. At some point it breaks us.
The street I live on was also closed to car traffic. I miss it a lot.
https://www.minneapolisparks.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/12.-Implementation-Calhoun_Bde-Maka-Ska-Harriet-Master-Plan.pdf
Park at the outskirts, explore via infrastructure. Seems like a pipe dream, especially here in the US
That doesn’t mean cars need to be in 100% of public spaces, right? Like this parkway.
#BubbleDreams