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If you support walkability and safe streets but only if zero drivers perceive themselves to be inconvenienced by the infrastructure, then you don't support walkability or safe streets.
Other industries design technology to fail safe; how could we rethink road design and cars from this perspective?
Tracy has a good roundup of links and thoughts on the tension between cars and people.
We’ve seen…increased road congestion that the BeltLine was always meant to relieve. Density makes sense along a transit corridor, but take away this key ingredient and you’re left with a linear park for the privileged few, which was never the intention.
Atlanta needs more transit and fewer people trying to pull the ladder up behind them.
@dx if only someone could tell us how Paris accomplished this feat of traffic Engineering! Surely they spent hundreds of millions of dollars and leveled half of their historic buildings, after decades of planning and outreach? Or did they just quit coddling cars for a minute?
Like the small bits of BeltLine path that gradually were built one section at a time until they started to connect, this first rail section is just one piece of a big puzzle with a really beautiful picture at the end.
I appreciated this thoughtful perspective of light rail on the beltline.