What about a retired person who no longer has a traditional commute, but uses micromobility everyday? What about kids? What about people who are unemployed or work from home? StatsCan very specifically only looks at travel to and from work, which will never tell the whole story. 7/8 - ThreadSky

terriclarke.bsky.social • 12 days ago

What about a retired person who no longer has a traditional commute, but uses micromobility everyday? What about kids? What about people who are unemployed or work from home? StatsCan very specifically only looks at travel to and from work, which will never tell the whole story. 7/8

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terriclarke.bsky.social•12 days ago

If we build lanes solely for commuters there are a lot of people that get left out (including kids) who may never bike on infrastructure that isn’t built safe, isn’t built “high-comfort”. There’s overlap there with some of the same groups left out by car-centric design. We can do better. 8/8

rebelraising.bsky.social•11 days ago

And this is a really typical bit of patriarchy encoded in infrastructure: "real" travellers are adult men commuting to their office and back again, and when you build systems around them, you miss women dropping the kids at school before work, carers, kids, retired people...

carfreeroutes.bsky.social•11 days ago

Absolutely

laskinator.bsky.social•11 days ago

I wish all those commenting negatively on the FB post would read and absorb this thread. One person telling me the ROI on Halifax's cycling infra isn't worth the cost.
So basically telling me people's safety isn't worth spending tax dollars on.
Car Brain is a horrible disease.

terriclarke.bsky.social•11 days ago

What is the ROI on the billions we’ve spent on roads? Or sewers? Infrastructure is an inevitable cost of living in society.

laskinator.bsky.social•11 days ago

That's what I said, but she claimed that the number of people biking currently isn't high enough to make the investments thus far worth it. She quoted I think $93M spent on infra.

Why don't any of these people obsessed with driving understand the principle of induced demand?

terriclarke.bsky.social•11 days ago

Because populism I suppose. And an information environment that encourages them to reject evidence that doesn’t agree with their internal biases.

laskinator.bsky.social•11 days ago

It's so frustrating to argue with, when you're against that, and you just really want these people to realize this is literal life-or-death shit we're talking about here, no I don't care if your commute is longer.
I also drive, so it's not like I don't understand how shitty that is.

npilon.bsky.social•11 days ago

Trish Purdy also objected to a program for planting young trees because no one wants streets lined with immature trees, they want leafy boulevards with mature trees.

I’m pretty sure she doesn’t understand, like… Time.

laskinator.bsky.social•11 days ago

Well I don't know who Trish Purdy is, but she sounds like a dingus.

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