cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/30007963
Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/30007963
Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea
Your suggestions are good, I agree. I also think it’s important to remove zoning (save for heavy industry, harbours, and airports, those should still be isolated).
That said, you’d be surprised how much progress can be made in so little time. For example, under Enrique Peñalosa, who was Bogota’s mayor between 1998-2001 and again from 2016-2019, the city saw a gigantic increase of bicycle pathes. It now has the biggest bicycle network in … all of the Americas. Even if we add in the work of the other one, Antanas Mockus Šivickas, who was mayor between 1995-1997, and 2001-2003, that’s still impressive.
Political will is what is lacking in the US.
Bogota still has no metro system being the largest city in the Americas not not have one. The next largest to lack one is Cali and then Houston. To be fair they are building one right now, but still not a great example
Houston is notoriously carbrained though, they basically have as much land dedicated to parking spot asphalt as they’ve for … office skyscrapers, with almost no good greenery.
tbf i’m not gonna shit on progress. do i want it to be perfect? yes. do i think good is an issue? no. i’ll not go for anything below ‘good’, but definitely will strive for perfect there as an ideal.