Green city experiments are happening worldwide. 20thC was all about building cities around cars. Coronavirus allows for emergency measures that permanently revitalize neighborhoods & public spaces. bit.ly/pandemicurbani…
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If you added up all the space Manhattan gives to cars — roadway, street parking, garages — you’d have an area nearly 4 times as large as Central Park.
What if all that space was given to people? What then? Clean air? Safe streets? Healthy bodies? @fmanjoo nytimes.com/2020/07/09/opi…
In Paris,Anne Hidalgo used lockdown time to create more cycling lanes. Residents can get up to 500 euros to buy an electric bike & a €50 reimbursement to repair an old bike. Unsurprisingly, a cycling boom in a car-mad city. 3/ #CoronavirusImposesCarbonTax
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This could be every city. 4/
Bogota's mayor, Claudia López, opened up nearly 72 miles of new bike routes in March. With car traffic down, the city replaced 35kms with new 'emergency' bike paths. Similar $100M plan in New Zealand. Guerrilla urbanism! 5/
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N. American cities: ~50% of commuters drive. Cost? Pedestrian fatalities, congestion, sprawl & .
European cities: ~50% of commuters cycle. Benefits? Safer, healthier, wealthier & greener.
Cities are cash-strapped & greener is way cheaper. 2020 could be a turning point. 6/
Bicycles are selling like hot cakes and in the best kind of supply-chain disruption story (remember #CoronavirusImposesCarbonTax?) manufacturers can't keep up w demand. Cycle sales in the US have been the highest since the oil crisis of the 1970s!!
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8/ Amazing crowd-sourcing by Tabitha Combs @DCRPcarolina to put together what 100s of cities have done to create safer, people-friendly streets.
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9/ At least 100 cities have abolished fares in public transport!! Its the first time I've heard of guerrilla urbanism but its apparently on? #CoronavirusImposesCarbonTax ht @wkeblowski
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10/ Coronavirus is to 21st Century as
Cholera was to 19th Century.
@citiesforpeople not tons of metal —Jan Gehl.
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If a car-mad city can change so fast, every city can. 2 is to 1 ratio of cycle to car space should be the new Paris Climate Agreement
If you added up all the space Manhattan gives to cars — roadway, parking, garages — you’d have an area nearly 4 times as large as Central Park
What if all that space was given to people? What then? Clean air? Safe streets? Healthy bodies? @fmanjoo #NUMTOT nytimes.com/2020/07/09/opi…
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