Thread by @ai6yrham

Random thoughts on what cities should (but won't) do to transition out of a #gasoline dependent world. 1. separated bike lanes everywhere, particularly in working class neighborhoods that already heavily bicycle/pedestrian.

2. Bicycle racks at local stores and shopping centers. At least in my suburban area, even if you bicycle there, you can't lock up your bicycle anywhere!

3. Removing/repealing bicycle unfriendly laws, which often are used more as pretext to snag people using bicycles for work, rather than pleasure. tampabay.com/news/publicsaf…

4. Addition of bicycle crossing signals (next to those new bicycle lanes you just added) so that your busy streets can actually be crossed by cycle riders (not the case here... I jump off and have to hit the pedestrian signal at some intersections here)

5. Add pedestrian-and-bicycle friendly access to suburban neighborhoods/gated communities/shopping centers, where you sometimes have to go half a mile out of your way to get *into* a neighborhood or shopping center. Less walls, more passageways!

6. Encourage what many restaurants did during the first half of the pandemic: encourage/allow them to sell groceries (prohibited here in my county for some reason), which would increase access to items closer to where people live, at least for neighborhood restaurants.

7. Put more pedestrian crossings (with lights) on roads. In some places here you have to walk a mile to find an actual pedestrian crossing (which are few and far between), which is completely impractical for pedestrians (results in jaywalking and many deaths).

8. Create bicycle corridors in your city between residential zones and commercial/business zones, where you have additional bicycle lanes or which are marked out for commuting; don't assume bicyclists will brave dangerous major auto routes (where you risk death every day).

9. Put more sidewalks and bicycle lanes into the most disadvantaged neighborhoods, who (at least here) appear to have the most pedestrians and bicycling, but least infrastructure.

10. Encourage, rather than discourage, mixed use zoning. It's common in Europe, but pretty much illegal in the United States. Shops downstairs, homes/apartments upstairs.

Lots of studies/discussion on the mixed use zoning problem in the United States (apparently mostly illegal)

https://twitter.com/hborys/status/1034791164099129344?s=20&t=ZiQHqeBdw44rYDiB4kGuew

11. Bicycle repair stations (here, our local fire department have them) help encourage this, though more for recreational riders than commuters... but it's a great idea: vcfd.org/services/bicyc…

12. Fix the hundreds of neighborhoods where there are no practical options for walking in a straight line to a destination (like your local market or elementary school) without taking a huge detour. This is just a mild one (Palm Springs) -- many that are horribly worse.

13. Decrease speeds on city streets. Some cities (looking at you, Phoenix) have a massive death toll when fast moving vehicles and pedestrians (particularly at mid-block) collide.

https://twitter.com/ChampPR/status/1499254102496141315?s=20&t=aSJG4OiMHhocWQdn3Bd8Bw