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carltonreid:
The "car is a dumb way to move around in cities". It's in NewScientist so must be true. http://t.co/07LKrFc
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"car is a dumb way to move around in cities"
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Posted 12 years ago #
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makes the car a dumb way to move around in cities where there are public transport alternatives.
As users of the forum know - any old or new bike can get across central Edinburgh faster than exisiting bus routes.
Edinburgh's problem is one of too many buses and too many stops. Plus lack of pre-bought 24 hour tickets resulting in bus stop times taking longer than they could.
Most cities would maximise existing corridors (ie to Leth by rail, South Sub with interchanges. Edinburgh's statement of intent was shown a while back when the St Andrew Square bus station was re-built away from rail station and with no city buses going that close. That is a great example of a dis-intergrated transport approach... . Even the re-vamp of Waverley offers less than it should although a public escalator in central Edinburgh is quite a step forward)Posted 12 years ago # -
The "car is a dumb way to move around in cities" we all know it but why don't policy makers get it? It has been clear for over 40 years...
Posted 12 years ago # -
I don't know. It looks less clever in the context of the full sentence where the "dumb" statement is preceded by two pieces of hyperbole: "And urban gridlock, combined with an absence of parking places and congestion charging, makes the car a dumb way to move around in cities where there are public transport alternatives". My emphasis.
We're nowhere near either of those situations. A bit congested, a shortage of (expensive) parking places but not gridlock and not an absence. And congestion charging only applies to London.
More importantly, if, as he implies, motorists are plain dumb, what hope is there for significant change?
Posted 12 years ago #
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