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the other thing is that people have no sense of how much space cars and so they imagine that a road full of cars must be a lot of people when it very often is not. a well-used bike lane transports like twice as many people during a given time as does a road
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Me
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Way more than twice as many
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@fcburleigh.bsky.social
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And now I'm thinking of an older model: the storefront with an apartment above, behind, or beside the shop. Think of all the forces that specialized space, separating "life" from work. "Specialization" is a type of rationalizing, which we're taught is good. Perhaps not always.
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@fcburleigh.bsky.social
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I once saw an incredible graphic illustrating this point. In confined space, cars are *the worst* use of space if you care about efficient people flow. Foot, bike, bus are all way better users of space -- and probably a bunch of other resources. Intuitive once you think outside the car, so to speak.
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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I've been terrified by this for a while now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUNX...
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Jeff Baker
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It's much more than double, I think.
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@cfradenburg.bsky.social
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Since cars allow us to travel further it increases the customer base which theoretically results in more customers. However, making it so people that are within 10-15 minute bike ride can get there easily and safely will probably help more than drawing in people a 30 minute drive out in most places.
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And they also get very angry at people who dare to use their bicycles, especially on the road, and want to do everything in their power to get rid of cyclists
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Pete Ellsworth
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Every time a road is being improved or widened without a bike lane going in at the same is a crime.
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brianjay
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just watched a video about biking in amsterdam. there were probably 20+ people on bikes going through an intersection and all i could wonder is what that would look like if they were all in cars.
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Ned Resnikoff
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Especially true as cars get larger and larger while transporting the same number of people
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Jaz
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In cities/close in to them, cars take lots of space that could be better used and don't go fast. Outside, bikes and buses can transport more people but are lots slower and don't cover large distances. Parking people on the edge of cities and using rapid transit further in would help.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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but you also just can’t overstate the extent to which these kinds of small business owners are not just risk averse but genuinely dimwitted
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skyybeans
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Bike racks generate more revenue than parking in dense cities! Space (and speed/safety) play a huge part in how transportation interacts with city activity.
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Michael King
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Local publisher whined incessantly that stoplights were not synchronized sufficiently on his personal route into town. Entire road system designed for the convenience of suburban commuters who also reject taxes for public transit, with virulent support of state government.
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Ben Steele
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I enjoyed a bike/scooter lane traffic jam for the first time last night after fireworks. It was literally just 20 people waiting for the light in the space of two car lengths and then semi-orderedly proceeding at lights timed for auto traffic.
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Mary (geographile)
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Where I live, the bike lanes are relatively new and the car drivers hate them, at least a lot of them do. And anyway, because people are traditionally afraid to ride bikes on streets here because they have gotten injured, it's taken a while for the bike lanes to populate. Still not there.
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Stephen Webb
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When I lived in a place where the bus was a viable option I would count the cars around me that would fill the empty seats on my half-full bus and watch congestion blip away.
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Seth Trueger
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Mirjam
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My city is building a mostly carless neighbourhood and I do wonder now if anyone tried to calculate how much extra housing space and/or green this design has created.
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Connor
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One of the things the ceo of rivian has been trying to push is rev vouchers for e bikes. I remember him saying something like “the people who can afford our cars don’t need vouchers as much as the people who would Ebike” also cars are not a good last mile solution
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Wendel
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Research has also shown that people are more likely to frequent businesses if they're easily accessible by walking. Business owners who just want cars are knee-capping their own businesses.
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ZacktheScumbag-ceasefire plz
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I agree. I often imagine what our society would be like if it was less car centric.
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strive for pithiness. land on glib.
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I do think some progress has been made. Austin has gotten very aggressive adding bike lanes everywhere and even hard barrier lanes appearing more. Attitudes 10 years ago were driven by the 'fu, my taxes!' crowd. protest now is more specifically from businesses being torn down for transit/train.
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Ohai
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Yeah, "bike lanes don't suffer congestion" is somehow a huge PR problem for bike lanes :/
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bettybarcode
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Plus the sheer visibility advantage of motor vehicles. We *see* cars. We don't see the people (pedestrians, cyclists, kids, shoppers) driven away, no pun intended, by automotive speeds, volumes, danger, noise, and pollution.
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