This rather interesting link was posted to the Bristol Cycling Campaign mailing list:
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A wonderful series of pictures on the Denver (Colorado) government website, showing the space taken on a four-lane street by 35 cars, then their single occupants occupying the same space without their cars, then those people if they were in a bus, and finally what the road might look like if changed to mixed mode transportation. The best series of illustrations I have seen of the theft of space, literal highway robbery inherant in the carcentric society.
-- Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my reply address) <URL:http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/> "He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine
This rather interesting link was posted to the Bristol Cycling Campaign mailing list:
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A wonderful series of pictures on the Denver (Colorado) government website, showing the space taken on a four-lane street by 35 cars, then their single occupants occupying the same space without their cars, then those people if they were in a bus, and finally what the road might look like if changed to mixed mode transportation. The best series of illustrations I have seen of the theft of space, literal highway robbery inherant in the carcentric society.
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Danny Colyer said:
This rather interesting link was posted to the Bristol Cycling Campaign mailing list:
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A wonderful series of pictures on the Denver (Colorado) government website, showing the space taken on a four-lane street by 35 cars, then their single occupants occupying the same space without their cars, then those people if they were in a bus, and finally what the road might look like if changed to mixed mode transportation. The best series of illustrations I have seen of the theft of space, literal highway robbery inherant in the carcentric society.
Picture tells a thousand words and all that jazz. Great little sequence that, has man almost Pythonesque feel to it...imo!
Garry
In the 60's London Transport ran an almost identical poster campaign. Picture of street jammed with cars, followed by picture of 50 or so people in otherwise deserted street, followed by picture of one bus in otherwise deserted street. I'm afraid it didn't work then, & I ain't too hopeful now.
Upon the miasma of midnight, a darkling spirit identified as Peter Grange <[email hidden]> gently breathed:
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In the 60's London Transport ran an almost identical poster campaign. Picture of street jammed with cars, followed by picture of 50 or so people in otherwise deserted street, followed by picture of one bus in otherwise deserted street. I'm afraid it didn't work then, & I ain't too hopeful now.
People tend to see things like that and think "brilliant - of all those other people doing standard commutes used the bus, I'd have a much easier run in my car". It's always SEP - someone else's problem.
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Upon the miasma of midnight, a darkling spirit identified as Peter Grange <[email hidden]> gently breathed:
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In the 60's London Transport ran an almost identical poster campaign. Picture of street jammed with cars, followed by picture of 50 or so people in otherwise deserted street, followed by picture of one bus in otherwise deserted street. I'm afraid it didn't work then, & I ain't too hopeful now.
People tend to see things like that and think "brilliant - of all those other people doing standard commutes used the bus, I'd have a much easier run in my car". It's always SEP - someone else's problem.
Part of the problem is the amount of space between the cars - the drivers are at least twenty feet apart. Why not make them join the cars together into trains so they can be more closely spaced?
-- Sue ];(🙂
What goes down must come up again - Confucius' Law of Mountain Biking
