There is not a path to reduced #ClimateChange emissions and a sustainable #transportation system that allows our species to survive #GlobalWarming while maintaining #CarSupremacy with its glut of empty passing lanes and free #parking where all options to choose #eBikes or #transit have been cut off by walls of traffic (cars always either at a standstill or moving at deadly speeds, averaging 20mph.) Many people need to change their plans and stop driving, many car lanes need to be repurposed.
The main thing that we need to do to make our streets safe, safe enough that kids can bike to school or other activities on their own, is to make cut-through car traffic go back to the arterial streets and stay there. Low-Traffic Neighborhood streets are created by diverting car traffic to prevent direct routes through from being useful to drivers. You can still drive to every destination, just going around the block sometimes, and always to the closest arterial rather than through the middle.
There simply is not another feasible way to share narrow residential streets with bike traffic, no space or money to build separated bikeways through the neighborhoods, and no justification for it when you don't need or want the car traffic through there but simply need access by car, trash collection, deliveries. You don't need thousands of cars per day in each direction on every street, and allowing that level of traffic will bleed your city dry in street maintenance.
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