Re: A strange idea
The idea of the walkable city is such contradiction in terms.
I think you've missed the whole point of cities.
I was born in London and to be honest I wouldn't live there if you paid me to.
But, I love visiting London of an evening. It's vibrant, There's lots happening, a huge variety of places to eat, places to go for entertainment. Lots of places to meet up with friends etc.
To me that's the advantage of cities.
If I was 30 years younger then I'd love to live in a place like that.
The idea of the walkable city is such contradiction in terms.
Nope!
I want to be able to walk around it.
I'd love to be able to just walk around without having to worry about cars, buses, trucks and cyclists.
London has a high enough population density to fund burying most of the transport infrastructure. The more of that which is out of sight and out of mind the better.
If they want to plan a city for autonomous cars then it should be one where the roads have been removed from the places that the pedestrians want to walk, live in 3 dimensions take it up and/or down.
If all the roads were buried in tubes then people probably wouldn't care that much about driving.
Oh yes,
PS. I love to drive and wouldn't want an AV in today's road system.
PPS, when AVs start to appear on our roads you can bet I'll be one of the people who game them.
PPPS, I've said here before that as a pedestrian I will not give way to an AV, it can damn well stop and give way to me.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
