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Public space + mobility + waterfronts in 6 minutes?
Milota /festival coordinator, project manager/ will prepare a short, but intense presentation about themes we like.
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Good Bicycle Week in Cape Town
Promenade becomes a shared space
The past week has been a good week for bicyclists in Cape Town,…
(via secretrepublic)
Those Danes are really awesome people
Copenhagen, March 13, 2013
Photos by Lars Gemzøe
French designer Philippe Starck and Peugeot have unveiled a prototype bicycle crossed with a scooter, designed for a free cycle scheme in Bordeaux, France. This is a fun way to make bike sharing cool. Bordeaux!
One of San Francisco’s latest traffic calming projects makes a simple, but fundamental change at the intersection to discourage drivers from using neighborhood streets to bypass a stoplight.
Instead of pedestrians crossing the street, cars have to pull into the street across a driveway that doubles as a speed bump. After the driveway the street transitions into a cobblestone or brick-like paving treatment instead of the normal asphalt road we’d expect. Another tool to slow down traffic is to swap the parking and driving sides of the street using curb extensions, called chicanes, to guide drivers and parkers through the transition from one side to other.
But back to the brick pattern treatment, because it creates a new kind of street treatment somewhere between a road and a sidewalk. A little south of here, the City of Mountain View did something similar when they redesigned their main boulevard by using brick paving for what is sometimes used as parking and outdoor restaurant seating at others.
All over the country, cities are starting to reverse more than a half century of car-centric development, but each project like brings us a little closers to a good balance…
it’s like what i saw in stockholm! the sidewalk is continuous so it doesn’t even feel like you’re walking across an intersection! but the one on fleminggatan has chess pieces and ped- and cycle-only access.
Few weeks ago we informed Estonian Capital - Tallinn made its public transport free for its inhabitants. Let’s get some update - individual car transport fell down 10 percent!
Lowering Parking Minimums Is Nowhere Close to a “War on Cars”
Bikes vs. Cars - that extreme is extreme - we seek for a good consensus.
The famed “War on Cars” — who among us hasn’t heard this tired hyperbole tossed around with wild abandon? Want to install a bike lane? Gasp! “War on cars!” Speeding cameras in school zones? “War on cars!!” Raise tolls to cover the huge cost of roads? “WAR ON CARS!!!”
You know how it goes. Paul Barter at Reinventing Parking was reflecting on this rhetoric recently after a proposal to ease parking minimums in Santa Monica elicited the predictable response. Barter says calling policies like these a “war on cars” is akin to saying women’s early struggles for voting rights were “anti-men” because “it involves ignoring a huge edifice of policies that are actually skewed in the other direction.”
thank you, streetsblog! (05.02.13.)
If there was a “war” involving cars in Santa Monica, it looks like the cars already won.
some reader comments from the post:
Parking minimums need to be replaced with parking maximums.
yes, yes, yes. but who is a land use zoning or housing planner person and can rework this policy?? and I think this would be local city level? (maaang should I have picked land use planning instead of transportation planning on my grad school apps?)
I am in the minority on this one but as a non-driving urbanist, my view is that we do need a war on cars. It’s impolitic of course but cars are dangerous to bikers/pedestrians, pollutant-spewing and take up lane space for my buses.
hmm… more like this:
None of these are a war on cars. It’s a war on traffic, a war on congestion. A war on pedestrian fatalities. A war on time wasted stuck in gridlock. A fight to be able to get places as we please rather than being forced into a metal cage crawling stop-and-go at 3mph.
Tomáš Cach is a young architect, traffic urbanist who stands behind the first large-scale traffic calming Tempo 30 in Karlin, Prague. For years he’s been working for NGOs, but also for the City - however few days ago he and his 6 colleagues resigned from the City Bike Committee.
The articles are in Czech language.
http://prahounakole.cz/2013/02/pet-clenu-komise-pro-cyklistickou-dopravu-rezignovalo/
Tempo 30 in Prague:
why not?
MIAMI – Residents and visitors of Wynwood can now enjoy the neighborhood’s first permanent artistic crosswalk, marked by a work that seeks to transform the intersection of Northwest Second Avenue and 25th Street.
The effort is part of the Miami Biennale and WADA’s ‘Wynwood Ways’, a collaboration to make the neighborhood a more pedestrian-friendly cultural destination.
-Source: Wynwood
(via thisbigcity)
Kids in Netherlands found out a simple way how to make cars stop on the Zebra Crossing! What do you think?
reSITE Festival highlights how contemporary, collaborative design can improve life in cities.
