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Mark Hambridge's avatar

The post-World War II British New Towns movement attempted to address these issues. Some facilitated development with cars, while others did so almost in spite of them. After reading AB's article, I looked at Google Earth's images of Milton Keynes (which only existed on paper when I left the UK). Diagrammatically, MK appears to have resolved the pedestrian-vehicle dilemma primarily by utilising superblocks that concentrate on narrow streets and deliberately separated walkways, as well as grade separation for pedestrians versus vehicles. I could live there!

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Daniel Kligerman's avatar

I wonder how the eventual shift to fully autonomous vehicles will influence these design decisions.

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Andy Boenau's avatar

Me too. It'll be a long time before AVs are routinely seen but it'll happen (especially the fleet vehicles on specific routes). In the meantime, the industry keeps plugging away as if transportation hasn't evolved in decades.

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Venus's avatar

Why is it that we all see that, but the engineers and people in charge of our roads... I do not get that. It's like they live in a parallel world.

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Kim's avatar

“We all” don’t see that. There is a huge contingent of the public that will flip their shit at the idea of anything that infringes on the speed of their death machine.

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Mark Hambridge's avatar

The parallel world is dominant and funded by the fossil fuel and automobile industries.

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Venus's avatar

You are absolutely right.

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David Jenkins, AICP's avatar

An honest and needed perspective for people , not cars.

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