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Induced demand is real. It is a very good idea to induce demand for traffic that is inexpensive and scales well, instead of the opposite.
Fuck Bikes. Us Walkers need to stick together.
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This is not just a matter of adding protected bike lanes. Cambridge is a geographically tiny but high population density city that has been consistently working in this direction for decades. What would be a huge accomplishment anywhere is just another step
It’s fantastic they’ve been able to accomplish so much toward car-free living and I wish I could afford to live there.
One of the things people should take from my response is that protected bike lanes are a great step but not sufficient by themselves. All the other steps Cambridge has taken to increase walkability, bus, and subway access, to curtail cars, to encourage walking, to adding protected bus lanes, to remapping their street grid to form an oasis helped make this possible
Who would have thought, next increased sidewalk widths and walkable neighborhoods increase the chance of someone choosing to go out for a walk
Cambridge is like 30 years ahead of this. They are a model for the rest of us