Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car.
In fact, it was 4%.
And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%.
Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2020/01/13/birmingham-reveals-radical-ghent-style-plan-to-cut-car-addiction/
In fact, it was 4%.
And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%.
Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2020/01/13/birmingham-reveals-radical-ghent-style-plan-to-cut-car-addiction/
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Owners then started parking in front of their stores.
And they take for granted the customers who walk/bike to the store, despite their trips being more dangerous. They don't realize they can lose those customers too.
And rightfully so!
You guessed it. "Look how I got here. I count."
It might be a stupid question, but how arrived the remaining 24%?
The same way everyone else does. "Here's the address, when can I expect delivery?"
If Dave the Curry’s salesperson sold Winnie the customer a dozen laptops with an Intel processor, how many HP printers did Sharon the temporary assistant sell?
Show your working.
6 stores in that picture. Maybe 12 apartments above them.
New builds like that with mid rise would increase that to 20 or more homes. High rise ? 50?
Everything people need in one block.
Moog Moog!
So does that make me a walker or a driver?
Also a good reminder that everybody’s a pedestrian for the end of their journey.
All of which are enhanced by bicycle lanes and pedestrian areas that are generous, and less car traffic.
Wanna kill ‘hood like that?
Widen car lanes, provide them with the ability to move faster.
he's on it.
This *increases* foot traffic and doesn’t “block essential parking.” Ugh.
Instead of being the time and space for your ebooks or lesson planning or chats.
Morons
Berlin : https://findingspress.org/article/24497-local-business-perception-vs-mobility-behavior-of-shoppers-a-survey-from-berlin
Geneva : https://www.geneve.ch/actualites/recente-etude-atteste-pietonnisation-achats-menage
Graphs from Berlin study ⤵️
And yet many business owners would prefer parking spaces over a transit stop outside their shop. They'd rather a couple of motorists get to dump their cars for an hour than a constant flow of bus passengers.
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