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WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims
Ford: Bike lanes are bad for businesses!
Business Association: HANDS OFF THEM LANES WE LOVE THEM
Great things that happened on transit
Elon Musk’s apparent distaste for public transit and random strangers prompted a Twitter battle last week. Though for the record, Musk later clarified that he loves trains, most subways and London buses.
Transit planner Jarrett Walker retorted that Elon’s views are the “essence of elite projection”. What’s good for Elon Musk may not, in fact, be good for the broader society. Elon responded by calling him an idiot.
All of this prompted Brent Toderian -- city planner and former chief planner of Vancouver -- to initiate the hashtag: #GreatThingsThatHappenedOnTransit. It then took off and the transit stories started pouring in.
Not surprisingly, this has been getting a lot of attention. It’s Elon Musk after all. But billionaire celebrities aside, it does serve as a good example of the two sides of this debate.
Some people seem to think that I am anti-car. I can see why some people might think that, but I am not anti-car. I love nice cars. And I love nice trains. What I value first and foremost is the city.
The kind of city you can build on the backbone of transit is very different than the kind of city that gets built around the car. And as a rule of thumb, I prefer the former over the latter.
But this is not to say that the public transit model is perfect. It’s far from perfect for many reasons. And it can get even more imperfect when we don’t pair it with the right land use policies.
Deploying heavy rail through low density areas -- that are by design inhospitable to car-less humans -- will not magically flip the modal split. Public transport alone cannot solve that problem.
At the same time, if you’re a regular reader of this blog you’ll know that I am enamoured by the possibilities of autonomous electric vehicles. I am not assuming that the “car” of tomorrow will look and perform anything like the car of today.
Mobility is such an exciting space right now.
A look at why we should be doing more to promote walking and cycling - it costs less (and leaves you healthier). From Brent Toderian’s Twitter stream.
Like walking, transit and car-driving, a few separated routes through a large, still car-dominated city and region, don't create a viable choice in how to get around for people aged 8-80. For people of both genders and all ages to choose a mode of movement, a system or network is needed - complete, connected, efficient, predictable, and safe in both perception and reality.
Brent Toderian, It's Not About the Bike or the Car. It's About Better Cities
Fax to Calgary Sun, Councillor Sean Chu re: you need more than just a few cycling lanes scattered through-out the city to start making it an option for as many people that satisfies you.
Even if they prioritize driving, global city-builders recognize the best thing those who feel they need to drive could hope for, is for OTHER people to be able to walk, bike and ride transit. Multi-modal cities make it easier for EVERYONE to get around - including, counter-intuitively, drivers.
Brent Toderian, It's Not About the Bike or the Car/ It's About Better Cities
