The contradictions in Winnipeg's new transportation plan
"The whole “new roads” angle really reads like someone wrote a good plan and then someone else came up behind them with a red marker to insert road expansions as a key priority in order to justify what they already want to do. It’s completely incoherent in the context of the rest of the plan."
#Winnipeg #Transportation #UrbanPlanning
Talk Is Cheap: How One City Hid Its True Intentions in the Fine Print
The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be: Changing Trends and Their Implications for Transport Planning
This is a very technical report with lots of charts and graphs detailing trends in transportation over the last hundred years. I think the biggest takeaway is that Peak Car happened about 15 years ago.
#UrbanPlanning #transportation #cars
SUVs Are Deadlier Than Cars — But on Fast Arterials, Pedestrians Die No Matter What
Tennessee's "117-percent increase in pedestrian deaths between 2009 and 2019 was tightly correlated with an increasing number of crashes on straight, multi-lane roads with speed limits over 35 miles per hour in urban and suburban areas"
#transportation #Tennessee #bancars
Study: Yes, SUVs Are Deadlier Than Cars — But on Fast Arterials, Pedestrians Die No Matter What — Streetsblog USA