On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 11:41 PM Jake via sudo-discuss <
sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> wrote:
On Tue, 1 Mar 2022, Marc Juul wrote:
> Interesting, though having a bus lane
straight through a "car free area"
>> seems very silly to me. I've never seen anything like that anywhere.
Does
>> anyone know why they came up with this?
surely the bus could just run
one
>> street over from telegraph?
>
> I think it's still worth having a "car free area" even with public
> transportation buses driving through - keep in mind that cities will
always
want
paths for fire trucks and ambulancii
Ambulances and fire trucks can still go in pedestrian areas without a big
fat bus lane as long as you don't literally barricade entry and exit, and
sure, having buses only is better than nothing but so much worse than
fully
pedestrian. There is a big difference in the
feeling of having to check
for
vehicles before crossing vs. just being able to
freely waltz all over the
place without a care in the world. The question is: Why campaign for
such a
suboptimal solution?
why aim for that solution? it's a big step in the right direction, and
having
a bus go through gives the same access to the place to people who are too
old
or immobile to get there by biking or whatever means us young healthy folks
have.
as for ambulances and fire trucks driving on non-roads...there will
invariably
be obstacles on those paths making passage impossible, that's something
that we
don't have to think about since we don't do those kinds of emergency jobs.
You realize I come from a country that's sorta known for being good at
bike/pedestrian friendly infrastructure design? and I'm telling you I've
never seen this sort of thing. There are other ways of dealing with access,
such as having the bus intersect the pedestrian only area every couple of
blocks. The bus doesn't stop on every block normally anyway. Obviously
impeding emergency traffic by putting obstacles in their paths should still
be illegal. I don't see why that would be different for a pedestrian area.
If you ever visit my home town we can walk down the main street which is
implemented exactly like this.
I'm also not sure why bikes should be allowed. Again they can just go one
street over.
Talk to Sierk if you want more info on how to do good pedestrian-friendly
street design. He has actually studied this stuff in depth. He'll also tell
you all about why the telegraph bike lane situation near Omni is flawed.
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