I love the model where one day a week, a series of downtown roads is cut off from car/truck traffic while pedestrians and bikers get use to it exclusively. Then they don't have to worry about the issues regarding bike lanes and traffic signals like with the speed differences between motorized and non-motorized travel.
So there's a solution, which requires little financial dependence that causes people to consider non-car travel. Here's a great video that illustrates the concept from Columbia: http://www.streetfilms.org/archives/ciclovia/ And if you can't or don't watch the video that just read this (from the video): Every Sunday, from 7am to 2pm, up to 2 million residents of Bogota, Columbia enjoy over 70 miles of car-free streets. _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
