Surely part of the problem of congested streets is that there are too many cars
and continuing to plan street usage based on rarely or never inconveniencing
cars is a recipe for disaster. Even if every car were magically transformed
from running on fossil fuel to electric based on a grid fed by wind, solar,
geothermal, and etc car use is unsustainable because of limited space. We
could, I guess, raze the buildings on Gorham and Johnson to make room for the
ever-increasing number of cars.
As recently as the 1970s Amsterdam was a congested nightmare of city; today,
because of careful planning and constant outreach, it is one of the more
livable cities in the world and, certainly, one of the more bikeocentric. The
modest proposal to make on the main legs of the multi-user path safer and more
convenient shouldn't be immediately rejected because it violates planning
policies that got us into this mess in the first place. At least from my
perspective, the fact that reducing redundancy improves the lot of alternative
modes of intercity transportation and makes single motorized vehicle use less
congenial is a point in it favor.
tom bach
“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of
the human race.”
—H. G. Wells, 1904
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