29:57 "The purpose of the Cycling Embassy in Ghent is to better the cycle culture, to show that pedestrians and Cyclists are important, that they are no longer in the margins of the traffic" and that "they are the most important road users in the City". 30:49 "every two months there is a Grease (Oil) air Air Action" somewhere in the city
57:40 Reaction of local business owners to car restrictions; 59:10 "Cities that want to have a strong local economy should invest in the experience of being in the city, to walk around, to look at the people, the buildings, etc"; 1:00:45 "The shops which were 20, 30, 40 years old whose business historically had been based around customers arriving by car, principally, found it the most difficult, but these were the ones often that were transformed by new entrants" (paraphrase)
55:53 Two-Month Living-Street Project - where the residents can design their own, car-free street, but they only have their scheme for two-months - to placate the opponents, who think "oh, 2 months, well, it won't be that terrible"... 😀
I wonder whether an important part of this "plan" ultimately has to include WW2. Because there was a lot of bombing (?) and as a result, the new roads constructed afterwards were wider. Few bombs fell in Cambridge, and thus, although PT will improve here if cars are taken off desirable radial routes, it won't be as much improved. And also you have to have an aspirational bus operator (which is apparently run by the Flemish Regional Govt) to take advantage of the opportunity... Stagecoach Cambridge is often wedded to the provision of services primarily targetted at the less mobile, favouring shortest possible walking, and not necessarily shortest possible bus-route... And I would also say that buses in Cambridge are too big wide for the streets they use. Back in the 1980s they were far more manoeuverable - albeit they were overwhelmed at peak-times. So we have a problem with drivers too; not enough of them. I'd like to think that some form of automation could help with that (not necessarily fully-automated, but enough to make the job less stressful)
There weren’t many bombings in Ghent either as far as I know. Dutch cities like Amsterdam were also spared. I don’t see a reason why a city would need wide roads
@@sergeantmajor_gross you may well be right. But the roads I saw pictured, with bikes in them, looked wide, in comparison to Cambridge roads - which are massively inconvenient for buses, for example. IMO. So my response would be "wider roads are needed for buses", or at least normal-sized buses
29:57 "The purpose of the Cycling Embassy in Ghent is to better the cycle culture, to show that pedestrians and Cyclists are important, that they are no longer in the margins of the traffic" and that "they are the most important road users in the City". 30:49 "every two months there is a Grease (Oil) air Air Action" somewhere in the city
57:40 Reaction of local business owners to car restrictions; 59:10 "Cities that want to have a strong local economy should invest in the experience of being in the city, to walk around, to look at the people, the buildings, etc"; 1:00:45 "The shops which were 20, 30, 40 years old whose business historically had been based around customers arriving by car, principally, found it the most difficult, but these were the ones often that were transformed by new entrants" (paraphrase)
55:53 Two-Month Living-Street Project - where the residents can design their own, car-free street, but they only have their scheme for two-months - to placate the opponents, who think "oh, 2 months, well, it won't be that terrible"... 😀
I wonder whether an important part of this "plan" ultimately has to include WW2. Because there was a lot of bombing (?) and as a result, the new roads constructed afterwards were wider. Few bombs fell in Cambridge, and thus, although PT will improve here if cars are taken off desirable radial routes, it won't be as much improved. And also you have to have an aspirational bus operator (which is apparently run by the Flemish Regional Govt) to take advantage of the opportunity... Stagecoach Cambridge is often wedded to the provision of services primarily targetted at the less mobile, favouring shortest possible walking, and not necessarily shortest possible bus-route... And I would also say that buses in Cambridge are too big wide for the streets they use. Back in the 1980s they were far more manoeuverable - albeit they were overwhelmed at peak-times. So we have a problem with drivers too; not enough of them. I'd like to think that some form of automation could help with that (not necessarily fully-automated, but enough to make the job less stressful)
There weren’t many bombings in Ghent either as far as I know. Dutch cities like Amsterdam were also spared. I don’t see a reason why a city would need wide roads
@@sergeantmajor_gross you may well be right. But the roads I saw pictured, with bikes in them, looked wide, in comparison to Cambridge roads - which are massively inconvenient for buses, for example. IMO. So my response would be "wider roads are needed for buses", or at least normal-sized buses