Building safe, green cities be like
Building safe, green cities be like
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Parking spots = parking meter and parking fine revenue
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Not for Chicago it doesn't ๐คฃ๐... ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
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I guess any fines you don't pay to Morgan Stanley kina look like revenue if you squint
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Okay, now explain all the free spots?
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Many places just lowered the speed limits so they could narrow the lanes and then put in the bike lanes and kept the parking. Or get rid of left turning lanes or make alternating streets one way so left turning lanes aren't needed.
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This is a great way to do it too! Many streets even have a 40km/h speed limit but are built wide enough to accommodate 80km/h, so drivers often speed and increase fatalities.
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Ok but bike lanes are just perpetuating the problem, which is that people need to travel too far to get to things. What we need is zoning reform, encouraging commercial construction in residential neighborhoods.
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The point of a city is all the things that you can journey too. If you just want the things in your local neighborhood then you can find that in small towns in the middle of nowhere. However in a large city a short journey of beyond walking distance is the real goal. We need more bike lanes and public transit!
We need zoning reforms because people shouldn't have to get to go far to get the basics (milk or whatever your culture sees as basics). However that doesn't change any need for getting people around.
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I think you're being down voted bc of your bike statement, but you are correct that zoning changes are required. It is a multifold solution. If you live in suburban hell and need to commute 20 miles to work as a result, the community won't adopt cycling as much as a community that has mixed zoning that puts commercial and residential closer together and residents can walk or bike.
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Nonsense. I live in nyc and use my bike to get around to a lot of places. You basically can't get a city more dense and mixed commercial-residential than New York
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Putting up protections on a bike lane is drastically quicker, they are nowhere near the same time scale.
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Bah, it's the exact opposite here in the UK. Cities want to build bike lanes and it's the people who keep stopping them.
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I didn't know that Tom Flood was in my city. It's like he knows exactly how our city council behaves.
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Fresno: Here's your bike lanes, we just had to remove 50% of the bus stops to make room.
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just widen the sidewalks a few feet and let them ride there.
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Bikes don't belong on sidewalks. Dangerous for pedestrians and cars can't see the cyclist as well
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Hey New York, how's it going now that you've killed the plan for congestion pricing in Manhattan?
Bus and Train service into the city can easily pass $15 round trip even with monthly passes. It was so infuriating to have to listen to people who already pay $600+ for a garage already crying about having to pay $15. If you live in New York City you know the area they wanted to tax has almost no parking before 7 pm except for commercial vehicles, and it is $5+ an hour (based on area, and increasing in cost by how long you stay) to even do that. And to make it worse was how many of those upset would be people from Upstate and New Jersey who only come to NYC 2x a year if that.