Curbing Traffic with Melissa and Chris Bruntlett
The War on Cars
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The Most Important Part of a Connected City Is the Car Plan
Dutch planners have discovered that the most important part of an effective walking and cycling plan is the car plan. So virtually every i the netherlands has specific hierarchy of streets. Local access roads push through traffic to the perimeter of the city, away from sensitive residential areas in an economic centre. And then the butor roads feed them to the motor ways. There's no it's very indirect. If you're driving and we use the example of getting to ichea from our house on the west side of the city to the east,. It's a two kilometer straight shot on bicycle. It was nearly 14 kilometers by car miaking the perimeter ring roads. These are specific policy decisions made
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