tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2969791928952941604.post3407739964261176407..comments2023-10-06T14:36:34.579+01:00Comments on The Grumpy Cyclist: It's not just cyclists part deuxGrumpyCyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02870343841388421714noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2969791928952941604.post-4301999276280739442011-05-23T11:59:25.719+01:002011-05-23T11:59:25.719+01:00There is a growing "reclaimn the streets"...There is a growing "reclaimn the streets" (no initial capitals) theme here, and in things going on around the city. Like the Blackfriars Bridge flash-mob in Friday morning, the fairly positive coverage that has got (so far) in the media and the Planning Inspectorate's comments on the Mayor's Transport Strategy - that the Mayor's duty on transport is NOT simply to facilitate faster, smoother movement of motor vehicles on the roads network, but to take proper account of other road users.<br /><br />Your pic appears to illustrate a key feature of the urban environment which justifies (perhaps) distnguishing cities from rural or suburban areas: in the city centre, non-motorists (mainly pedestrians, but cyclists as well) outnumber motorists by an order of magnitude. Once you get into the deep centre, ie City, Westminster, K&C, Camden, Hackney, the significant majority of travellers haven't set foot in a motor vehicle (except in a few cases a bus) since they left their homes in the suburbs that morning. <br /><br />No-one ever considers whether de-congesting the former and speeding up or smoothing their journey times is also important, despite the fact that quite clearly their time is also valuable, to them at least, and their simple proportionality suggests that collectively if not indivudally their time is more valuable than that of motorists.Paul Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07929808238663838155noreply@blogger.com