Even when walking and cycling facilities are not squeezed out, widening roads resumes adjacent properties reducing rateable area that pays for roads. Wider roads increase the length of crossings at signals hence carbrained engineers try to eliminate crossings and expect pedestrians to pass through 8 signalised crossing stages to simply cross one road. I think that any road that permits on-street parking should be limited to 20mph(30km/h) a simple, obvious and safe rule. Want cars to travel faster? Sure, after elimination of on-street parking and provision of a micromobility facility. The dangerous setting is the mixing of faster car and truck speeds with on-street parking. But since GM wrote your design manuals it's no surprise the rules tilted towards car dominance.
Andy- do you know of cities that have gotten out of the car storage business? Of particular interest, cities that have abandoned both developer parking requirements and the provision (by the City) of on street parking?
Even when walking and cycling facilities are not squeezed out, widening roads resumes adjacent properties reducing rateable area that pays for roads. Wider roads increase the length of crossings at signals hence carbrained engineers try to eliminate crossings and expect pedestrians to pass through 8 signalised crossing stages to simply cross one road. I think that any road that permits on-street parking should be limited to 20mph(30km/h) a simple, obvious and safe rule. Want cars to travel faster? Sure, after elimination of on-street parking and provision of a micromobility facility. The dangerous setting is the mixing of faster car and truck speeds with on-street parking. But since GM wrote your design manuals it's no surprise the rules tilted towards car dominance.
Spot on as usual, Andy!
Andy- do you know of cities that have gotten out of the car storage business? Of particular interest, cities that have abandoned both developer parking requirements and the provision (by the City) of on street parking?
(Obviously I'm not Andy) but the Parking Reform Network might be helpful in answering that
Parking Mandates Map - Parking Reform Network https://share.google/ciFqSgZ62IhNOJaHi