But did you factor in all the other things like insurance, oil changes, car washes, property tax for owning a driveway and public street maintenance?
NarrativeBear
joined 2 years ago
1000 seems like a lot, but you need to factor in insurance, cost of parking, repurchasing fule, windshield washer fluids, oils, cabin air filters, car washes, heated seat subscriptions. It all adds up quickly.
And I know I must be missing stuff in this list as well like maintenance and depreciation of the vehicle as well.
Also parking costs are generally subsidized with city taxes for on street parking, but owning a condo or home with a driveway you could be looking at property tax attached to your home, and in a condo you may need to purchase the parking spot as a separate property.
By all means advocating for walkable cities does not mean everyone needs to live in a walkable city. And it definitely does not mean you personally need to ditch your car if you absolutely still have need of it.
You personally could still choose to drive in from a rural house located a hour or two out of a dense suburban neighborhood like this if you so choose each morning. But don't deny everyone else that wants to walk down the stairs from their four-plex or small rise condo to grab milk and bread right at the lower level along their neighborhood street.
Also don't forget we all get older and when we do we will start to loose our ability to drive. Density like this is desperately needed it allows both older folks and children to get around more independently with schools, shops, cafés and pharmacies all within a short walk or quick tram or subway ride.
Why not just have one or two coach buses? Would probably care the same amount of people.
Wish more cities would use these types of markings, they usually mean red/yellow being no parking and blue being accessible parking. In some European cities they use zigzag markings meaning no parking.
Using this logic we should have bollards at all pedestrian crossings/intersections.
Its strange how a person on a bike highlights how unsafe streets and roads are because of cars
Also, these bollars that you are referring to here are actually only called curb markers. These are to show cars or snow plows where the curb is in low visibility. They are very similar to the marlers you may see for center curbs like these.
I see bike banana's and I upvote!
Infrastructure not weather makes bicycling great.
Similarly having great trails and sidewalks makes walking great, not the weather.
People have been walking in the rain and snow for millennia.
Its a step in the right direction, and you would not build a 10 lane highway right away, lanes would be added on and expanded as time progress.
This really just comes down to choosing where you live and at the same time writing your MP once in a while requesting better funding for good permanent infrastructure.
This could include asking for larger wider sidewalks, dedicated bicycle infrastructure like multi use trails, bikepaths and bikelanes, or asking for the city to allow more medium density into neighborhoods so that transit becomes more visible in the long run. You can even advocate for the addition of local shops to be able to open in residential neighborhoods.
Living in a "modern" American style suburb generally means the need of a car as shops and pharmacies are generally "outside" of the suburb. Walking in these places also generally is restricted to along the same street you need to drive down with no "short cuts" or trails in between homes. So walking 30min vs a 5min drive generally the car will wins out.
There are places in North America that are more walkable then others, look for more dense neighborhoods with no driveways and local shops right within the neighborhoods. I would also recommend looking at the youtube channel "NotJustBikes" this can give you ideas in some of the stuff you can start looking at from a infrastructure standpoint to show you well designed places for people and not just cars.
And I'd not forget making places that look like this is possible, it just requires a shift in perspective to see one is "car centric"
A group of students emptied blue ink from pens onto the stair handrails for a graduation prank.
It ended with paramedics being called to the highschool with police and news crews. Staff and students started to think it was a biological threat of sorts, as multiple random students started to get blue hands and eyes.
Same school a different year a bunch of students got on the roof and spray painted all the skylights black.
2
Former Toronto Coach Terminal to see apartments, plaza as part of huge redevelopment
(toronto.citynews.ca)
view more: next ›
We have been surround by cars for so long we have forgotten how amazing pedestrianized streets are.
So much so we fight tooth and nail to keep the cars, but once the street is transformed to something like above we absolutely love it and can't see life any other way.
Not to mention pedestrianized streets like these do so much better economically.