People can't imagine a future where we banned cars, but how many failed techbro propellerheaded ideas to stop #globalWarming do you need to see before it's hard to imagine one where we didn't?
@cyclotopie@gallegre@TiconderogaNo1 yes but who is using carshare for their daily commute? In settings where the vast majority would prefer better options, most still drive and have a hard time understanding or supporting policies that make driving short trips a less desirable option. Build streets for cars only = get traffic congestion. #InducedDemand
When people don't need cars for most trips, and #parking isn't free, car-sharing becomes useful.
It's a car/oil industry op, trying to focus on media giving drivers agency so drivers will feel bad and get all not all drivers, nobody will recognize that cars are the problem.
I wonder if higher speed limits create #InducedDemand for more miles-traveled by car, but #Portland has been steadily reducing speed limits yet their VMT is flat. What they haven't reduced, is the number of lanes available to cut-through the city by car. This makes sense intuitively, as I've caught up by e-bike, to drivers in traffic, who are averaging at best 20mph despite high posted speeds. Maybe posted speed only comes into play with low congestion.
"Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity." - Lewis Mumford in 1955.
We’ve known this for a LONG time, but we’ve put massive energy, money, space, and time into pretending we don’t know it. #InducedDemand#lawofcongestion
Public space is the most valuable resource of #cities, and they squander it on cars. Not "but I need to drive" or "economic activity and essential mobility blah blah blah", we could have all of that with a fraction of the asphalt. Not even "driver convenience". No, it's just stupid extra lanes for the worst drivers to pass law-abiding ones and go wait at a red light sooner, and empty free parking. Wasted. #InducedDemand#CarsRuinCities#Urbanism
I think PBOT should just ruthlessly cut how many lanes go through until drivers cry about it, and then cut some more, and then spend the leftover money on beer handups for bike commuters, but what do I know about subsidizing driving #InducedDemand
A couple canny cyclists using the ol' pool noodle to get drivers to obey the 3 ft. passing law even on a narrow rural road (you just have to wait...it's what you would do for a slow-moving car). CA State Route 116 near Monte Rio. #BikeTooter
@glightly If these were #EdgeLaneRoads, drivers would be able to pass as long as there's not a car coming in the other direction. It's a better way to share the space when people on bikes are going both ways and cars who don't like it don't come back if they can avoid it. #InducedDemand 🎉
I honestly don't believe #PBOT can't do the math on the weight of some concrete barriers, it's the value of keeping cars out of bike lanes that they just don't understand. Children's safety and independence vs the fully-imagined satisfaction of your "customers" that you subsidize at like $5/mile, it's a tough call. #CarsRuinCities#StuffInTheStreet#CarSupremacy#cars1stAlwaysOnly#trafficEngineers#InducedDemand
People have presented congestion pricing as though its only benefits were funding the MTA or reducing congestion, but Sadik-Khan has at least one more:
"To reap a huge street dividend. Congestion pricing is projected to reduce traffic by 20 percent. That means one in five cars will disappear. So there’s an opening for the city to innovate and create separate lanes for e-bikes, scooters, and mopeds that don’t belong in regular bike lanes or mixed in with traffic."
@capntransit that is the most wrong take on #InducedDemand I've heard? There are arguments against congestion pricing (time is more equitable, just have other options and congestion will self-manage) but if you want to be able to buy your way out of being stuck in traffic, you need to pay enough that other people will choose other options. Raise the price until the desired level of service can be met, regular free-market shit.
As our kids go #BackToSchool, never forget that we ARE the traffic that we’re using as an excuse. If more walked, biked or rode transit to school, it would erase a massive number of car trips each day, and our kids would be safer, healthier and better at school.
@cshentrup@BrentToderian the extra car lanes on these streets with no bike lanes leave parents choosing between sitting in traffic or elbowing their way through on a bike. How about letting kids walk or bike on their own? Across a freeway offramp... it's all designed and maintained to make cars seem like the only option, and threaten you with cars if you don't play along. #InducedDemand
Just got back from a day in #Ottawa. Ottawa must have the worst traffic in the country! Also bummed out that the Aerospace and Aviation Museum is closed on Tuesdays.
@ukulelehans@johnefrancis
Even if you can argue there are not enough lanes now, history has proven if you add more lanes there will still not be enough lanes. #InducedDemand
$1.5M/mile, is that per lane-mile? To pave a street. People don't really need 10 different ways to cut through a neighborhood in cars, though. This #InducedDemand of leaving a wide-open self-serve free-for-all of asphalt and free parking, is not paid for by gas tax and user fees, it's a cost borne by the people who live there and everyone who would have to bike or walk through it.
Neubau der Autobahnbrücke zwischen Wiesbaden und Mainz wird eröffnet
Ein Ende der Staus ist in Sicht: Nach jahrelanger Bauzeit wird die neue Schiersteiner Brücke zwischen Wiesbaden und Mainz feierlich eröffnet. Am Montag wird der Verkehr dann erstmals komplett über die Doppelbrücke rollen.
Es reicht schon, einfach nur "Induzierter Bedarf" (induced demand) zu googeln, um zu verstehen, dass das eine Märchenerzählung ist, zumindest jenseits kurzzeitiger Entlastung.
Staus vermeidet man durch eine echte #Mobilitaetswende, nicht durch Autobahnbau!
Today we went to visit a solar cycle/foot-path in Groningen. Solar road surfaces are of course completely idiotic. Why ? Because solar cells work best when they're not in shade, when they're not covered in thick translucent plastic, when there are no pebbles, sand or cigarette butts on them, and when they are at an angle towards the sun which also allows the rain to wash them.
But anyway, it was an arbitrary local destination for us on today's 70 km round trip. @eevblog #velomobile#regel17#solarroad#solarcyclepath#groningen#cycling#scandalouswasteofresources
@hembrow@djasa@lennartnout how are these charts counting the bike-to-transit trips? Is that two journeys?
You're not wrong about #InducedDemand of train trips generating emissions, but shifting out of cars allows better land use, more bicycle trips, etc. Because geometry hates cars. Besides trains being plugged into the grid (though trolleybus fleets and overhead wires will be more effective than laying new rail in most urban/ suburban cases)
@djasa there's also the #InducedDemand of a redundant network of free car streets and 3-5 free parking spots for every car, which the city spends millions per day to subsidize and jumps into action to fix in the middle of the night when some driver makes an oopsie out of a traffic signal pole or some other infrastructure. In that context, if all you get on a bike is told to "share", well it would be silly not to drive.
"Better Naito" was not made wide enough. Just a dozen people on bikes was difficult to get through a single green cycle because half of the group has a length of hill to climb where the first half was and they can't get much tighter than 2-up because the width is miserly (yes ted I said miserly). #PBOT coulda used that money to make Cesar Chavez safe for #pdxBikes & moar #transit, besides having bike lanes on the repaved Hawthorne, spent millions downtown to expand i5 traffic 39 blocks east.
Much of the problem with Naito, is that the traffic signal cycles are trying to favor freeway traffic in/out of downtown, which is just #InducedDemand for more #pdxTraffic. It's like your city is expanding a freeway without building any new lanes, just opening all of #Portland to anyone with a car to drive through, with at least 50 thruway options for any trip, racking up a debt of crumbling surface streets and running people who bike off of the road while delaying the bus.
"This is the standard method that the Netherlands uses to prevent people from driving through a neighborhood, and they make the streets safer and more enjoyable for everyone who lives there."
@fishidwardrobe the cars mostly just vanish. Half of car trips are under three miles. If you make it easier to go without a car, people will take that option. This is known as #InducedDemand or #trafficEvaporation - every bike ride in Amsterdam would have been a car trip (driving to the gym even.)