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MOBILITY FOR A HAPPIER AND MORE SUSTAINABLE CITY
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How would our Capetown be if we had a magic wand?
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Two kinds of reasons why our car based mobility is problematic:
Quality of urban life. 2) Inevitable road space scarcity.
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Tell a 3 year old: “Watch out. A car
Tell a 3 year old: “Watch out! A car!” And the child will jump in terror.
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The 20th Century will be remembered as a disastrous one in urban history.
In 200 years London 1800……
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A quality city can provide much joy
A quality city can provide much joy. And it is a magical good, because its capacity to provide joy does not wear out.
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Public pedestrian space IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF OUR CITY
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Can we design a transport system without knowing what kind of city we want?
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What is a good city?
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HAPPINESS NEEDS: We need to walk; we need to see people; we need not to feel inferior.
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Beyond survival, happiness needs: to be with people
2) to walk (riding a bicycle is just a more efficient way of walking) 3) to not feel inferior.
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A CITY WHERE PEOPLE WANT TO BE OUTSIDE
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A good city is very respectful to pedestrians
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A GOOD CITY IS GOOD FOR CHILDREN, THE ELDERLY, THE HANDICAPED, THE POOR…VULNERABLE
IT WILL BE GOOD FOR EVERYBODY ELSE…
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A city friendly to cars, or to people…there are conflicts..
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We can make a great city for cars…or a great city for people:
The second one needs excellent public transport.
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HIGH VELOCITY URBAN ROADS ARE LIKE FENCES IN A COW PASTURE
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How does a good city distribute road space between cars, buses, bicycles and pedestrians?
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MOST OF WHAT DESTROYS QUALITY OF LIFE IN MODERN CITIES RESULTS FROM TRYING TO MAKE MORE ROOM FOR CARS
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Most of what provides joy and is memorable in a city are its pedestrian spaces.
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Public pedestrian space is the most important part of our city: It is the only piece of our planet accessible to us.
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Cars are extremely recent in human history
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Over the last 80 years we have been making cities much more for cars mobility than for children’s happiness.
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When cars appeared we should have built a parallel road network: pedestrians an dcars..
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ALAMEDA EL PORVENIR How about Long Street and Kloof Street as PEDESTRIAN STREETS AS SOME LEADERS HERE PROPOSE?
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Why not structure the part of cities yet to be built around a pedestrian and bicycle street network hundreds of kilometers long?
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EL PORVENIR PROMENADE
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Such pedestrian-and-bicycle “highways” are not just for the poor…
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Sidewalks are the most important element of a democratic city’s infrastructure.
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People v.s Cars After Before
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Sidewalks are not relatives of streets, but of parks.
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Symbol: Human beings are important
Before
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Parking is not a constitutional right
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Quality sidewalks are a symbol showing that a citizen who walks is as important as one in a car. It is a symbol of democracy
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How wide should sidewalks be?
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Sidewalks are not enough: We require destinations.
We should be able to walk to buy bread or milk.
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When shopping malls replace public pedestrian space as the place to see and meet people, it is a symptom that a city is ill.
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Where JICA proposed an 8 lane highway, we built a 35 kilometer greenway for pedestrians and bicyclists only.
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CICLOVÍAS EN BOGOTÁ
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In public space we all meet as equals.
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Waterfronts are a treasure much more valuable than oil.
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Waterfronts are so unique, they should never be private and exclusive
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Waterfronts should have pedestrian infrastructure, preferably without motor-vehicles alongside.
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Recuperando el Sena para los peatones– Día Sin Carros
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Recuperando el Sena- La playa de París
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Recuperando el Sena- La playa de Paris
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Portland
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Siracusa, Italia
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Toronto
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Londres
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Londres
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Londres
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Battery Park, Nueva York
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Transport is a peculiar problem: It gets worse as a society gets richer.
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Transport cannot be solved simply with money: It takes changes in our way of life.
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“Transport Policy” means:
- Developing country city: “How to facilitate car use” Advanced city: How to reduce car use.
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Despite giant highways, Atlanta has more traffic jams every year.
Seattle Despite giant highways, Atlanta has more traffic jams every year.
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Montreal Commuting times:
1992: 62 minutes 2005: 76 minutes
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Solving traffic jams with more or bigger highways is like putting out a fire with gasoline.
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For traffic it is the same to double the number of cars, as to have the same cars do twice the distance.
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COUNTER-INTUITIVE TRUTHS:
The Earth circles around the sun - More road infrastructure brings about more traffic jams
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Do you know ONE city which has solved its traffic problems making more road infrastructure?
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If new roads are to be built, at least they should include BRT lanes.
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There is not a “natural” level of car use in a city.
It is Government which determines, explicitly or implicitly, how much will the car be used.
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If there was less space for cars, there would be less cars.
If there was more space for cars in New York or London, there would be more cars. If there was less space for cars, there would be less cars.
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Transport policy and decisions are not technical but political.
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A long time ago advanced cities such as Manhattan, London, Paris, or Zurich decided they would NOT build more road infrastructure in order to alleviate traffic jams.
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In the best cities of the world a large majority of people uses public transport for their daily mobility.
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Wherever people use public transport, it is rarely out of love for the environment.
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Many possible means to restrict car use:
London congestion charge, parking restrictions…
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Parking is not a constitutional right in any country.
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Traffic more than a problem, is a sign that a road is ripe for public transport.
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Bogotá Experience:Ciclovía
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« Peak hour and Tag » (« Pico y Placa »)
Bogotá: Tag number based restrictions « Peak hour and Tag » (« Pico y Placa ») 93% population support
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Bogotá: CAR FREE DAY During 13 hours all citizens meet as equals in public transport, bicycles or walking. It builds community
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A city that is safe and friendly to pedestrians and bicycles almost certainly is a good city.
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CICLOVÍAS
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CICLOVÍAS
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CICLOVÍAS
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CICLOVÍAS
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A bicycle-way which cannot be safely used by an 8 year old is not a bicycle-way.
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A protected bicycle way is a shows that a citizen on a $ 40 bicycle is equally important as one on a $ 40,000 car.
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In Bogotá there was not one meter of bike-ways and rider-ship was insignificant. Today more than people ride to work daily.
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Bogotá: BIKE PATHS
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Density is the most important element of good transport, regardless of whether we use trains, buses, taxis, bicycles or walk.
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What attracts people to suburbs?
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Pedestrian promenades, wide sidewalks and parks are a sort of vaccine against suburbanization.
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What kind of public transport?
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Even for the richest cities it is not possible to reach all sectors with rail.
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TRANSMILENIO
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Bus Rapid Transit systems are also a symbol of democracy.
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CICLOVÍAS
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CICLOVÍAS
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CICLOVÍAS
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TRANSMILENIO
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TransMilenio
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Buses can have as almost as much capacity as rail.
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Buses can be fast…as fast as urban rail on certain roads.
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TRANSPORT TransMilenio is moving more passenger per hour/mile than 90% of rail systems; at 10% the investment cost and 50% de operational cost per passenger; and similar speeds.
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It is more pleasant to ride public transport above ground than underground.
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TRANSMILENIO
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In terms of transport, a good city is one where a child in a bicycle could go safely everywhere.
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