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Build Cities for Bikes, Buses, and Feet—Not Cars – wired.com
Adam Rogers
New York drivers, never shy, complained about losing lanes. Retailers worried about losing customers. But polling showed that pretty much everyone else loved Sadik-Khan’s changes. She got 400 miles of bikeways built. She turned Times Square car-free, started a bike-share program, and helped found a national organization of city planners that could teach US cities to push these kinds of ideas as hard as the old car-forward ones. “We just lit the spark, gave cities permission to innovate,” Sadik-Khan says. “Change is difficult. A lot of cities are debating whether to build more roads and highways. They need to stop repeating the failures of the last century.”
New York drivers, never shy, complained about losing lanes. Retailers worried about losing customers. But polling showed that pretty much everyone else loved Sadik-Khan’s changes. She got 400 miles of bikeways built. She turned Times Square car-free, started a bike-share program, and helped found a national organization of city planners that could teach US cities to push these kinds of ideas as hard as the old car-forward ones. “We just lit the spark, gave cities permission to innovate,” Sadik-Khan says. “Change is difficult. A lot of cities are debating whether to build more roads and highways. They need to stop repeating the failures of the last century.”
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TfL Official Requested To Digitally Remove Close Overtake Of Cyclist From Suspended $1.3m TV Ad – Forbes
Carlton Reid 30/12/2021
A highly-placed Transport for London (TfL) official wanted to digitally alter a road safety TV advertisement after it was slammed on social media. The ad was removed from TV screens and Twitter in early December. The ad featured a female driver and a male cyclist shouting at each other after the motorist overtook the cyclist dangerously. The pair reconciled, but critics accused the ad of “victim blaming.”
Following a kickback on social media from cyclists and cycling organisations in late November the TfL official emailed the ad’s creative agency saying, “I’m confident that we will be back on air in January [2022].”
“Gutted it’s got to come down,” replied an executive from the VCCP ad agency of London, who went on to say the removal of the 60-second TV advert was “bowing to the minority.” (Ironically, the advert’s strapline was “See their side,” a reference to how road users ought to empathise with others also using the road.)
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“it’s the sheer volume of discourse it’s generated—and what it says about our collective desires in this precarious moment” – David Wallace-Wells – Twitter
David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells
“What’s interesting isn’t just how polarising the film is, it’s the sheer volume of discourse
it’s generated—and what it says about our collective desires in this precarious moment.”
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“It’s not just that I was almost hit by a driver running a stop sign, or that it was a half-block from my house” Rob
Rob@the_baseband
It’s not just that I was almost hit by a driver running a stop sign, or that it was a half-block from my house, or that the driver honked at me after doing it, or that he rolled down his window to yell vague threats at me afterwards…
it’s that it happens almost every day here
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Toronto City Council Removes Most Minimum Parking Requirements – www.planetizen.com
Toronto City Council Removes Most Minimum Parking Requirements
The parking reform movement has a major new feather in its cap: the Toronto City Council has this week adopted sweeping changes to the parking requirements of the city’s zoning bylaws. www.planetizen.com
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Drivers of luxury cars found to give pedestrians the right of way 3x less than those driving less expensive vehicles – Taras Grescoe – Twitter
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STUDY: Drivers of luxury cars found to give pedestrians the right of way 3x less than those driving less expensive vehicles; 4x more likely to cut off other drivers. Call it the “Audi Effect.”
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The Othering of Cyclists – Medium
Karen Liebreich
Everyone loves a good scapegoat. When your business is faltering because of Covid, or your shop is losing trade because of the internet, or when you simply can’t turn left outside your house as you have done for the last twenty years to drive to your local shops — blame cyclists. When you’re stuck in traffic and someone sweeps past without a care in the world (and without paying for road tax or insurance) — blame cyclists.
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Urban Age Debates: Cities in the 2020s | Localising Transport – Youtube
May 21, 2021
Live Event Recording | Urban Age Debates: Cities in the 2020s Localising Transport: towards the 15-minute city or the one-hour metropolis? Hosted by LSE Cities, the Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft and the LSE School of Public Policy For urban transport, the early 2020s are going to be an inflection point hard to overestimate: digital connectivity will increasingly substitute physical access, public transport finance will require new business models, and fiscal recovery packages have the potential to either entrench transport-intense urban development or accelerate progress towards urban patterns based on density and mixed use.
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Public must be told about Highway Code changes, says Cycling UK – road.cc
Simon MacMichael Thu, Dec 30, 2021
Cycling UK has urged the government to launch a properly funded and ongoing awareness campaign over changes to the Highway Code due to come into effect at the end of January, with the charity saying that “now is the time to right the misunderstanding on our roads.”
> Highway Code changes aimed at protecting cyclists to become law next month
The changes, primarily aimed at protecting vulnerable road users including cyclists, were drawn up following a consultation held by the Department for Transport (DfT) last year.
But the charity says that without people being made aware of the changes, and what they aim to achieve, the revised Highway Code will only be of “limited benefit.”
> Highway Code changes aimed at protecting cyclists to become law next month
The changes, primarily aimed at protecting vulnerable road users including cyclists, were drawn up following a consultation held by the Department for Transport (DfT) last year.
But the charity says that without people being made aware of the changes, and what they aim to achieve, the revised Highway Code will only be of “limited benefit.”