Town Planning - as if the car was not king. Mini Holland or Major Turkey? - Bowes and Bounds Connected2024-03-29T08:37:30Zhttps://bowesandbounds.org/forum/topics/town-planning-as-if-the-car-was-not-king-mini-holland-or-major-tu?commentId=6278630%3AComment%3A98838&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=noIf anyone is interested in th…tag:bowesandbounds.org,2015-07-20:6278630:Comment:988382015-07-20T20:16:41.158Zkarl brownhttps://bowesandbounds.org/profile/karlbrown
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><font face="Calibri" size="3">If anyone is interested in the big picture with a raft of supporting data then the London Infrastructure Plan 2050 has just been published in final form. The Transport Support Paper to this, at over 150 pages, is not a quick read but does outline the immense issues London faces, some of the trends and what the expectations and plans are. It has pictures too.…</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><font face="Calibri" size="3">If anyone is interested in the big picture with a raft of supporting data then the London Infrastructure Plan 2050 has just been published in final form. The Transport Support Paper to this, at over 150 pages, is not a quick read but does outline the immense issues London faces, some of the trends and what the expectations and plans are. It has pictures too.</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Think cycles making over 10% of all trips; a huge increase in public transport trips; road pricing and an expectation that Town Centres in the main will shrink, often turning to housing when near good transport with the balance providing convenience items (plus I would guess non internet capable items such as cafes, restaurants and haircuts). You don’t have to look too hard to see that trend.</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><font face="Calibri" size="3">The Roads Task Force (RTF), a broad church, has been working to a nearer timeframe and again have excellent material about how our streets could look and the challenges to be faced.</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><font face="Calibri" size="3">There’s not a lot, if indeed any of “steady as she goes” in either set of documents.</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><font face="Calibri" size="3">I would say the very real Cycle Enfield debate is less about a cycle route and the “right” to have immensely valuable main transport route space outside your shop dedicated to parked cars but rather one that is more life as we know it and a future; and change is inevitably tough and can take short term casualties on its way. Looking widely and forward doesn’t come naturally when inbuilt instincts are ones of survival. So the fight taking place is for the here and now as we know it; it just happens to be positioned vs cycles as a visible representative of the trends. And it’s very real and I suspect is going to get quite brutal over the coming months. Then the future happens; it always does.</font></p>
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