In environmental conservation, there’s an old saw about how we’re really good at preserving rocks and ice, i.e. places we can’t make productive use of anyway. I’ve noticed exactly the same effect in urban planning: We’re pretty good about prioritizing bike and pedestrian access where it doesn’t affect drivers, i.e. places hardly anybody wants to go.
Absolutely. I’ve live in a city before where they deployed bike lanes as if all the counter was the number of kilometers. No plan whatsoever.
In environmental conservation, there’s an old saw about how we’re really good at preserving rocks and ice, i.e. places we can’t make productive use of anyway. I’ve noticed exactly the same effect in urban planning: We’re pretty good about prioritizing bike and pedestrian access where it doesn’t affect drivers, i.e. places hardly anybody wants to go.