john dales (director, urban movement) ideas for london presentation
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Transport is a means to an end.
A greater London is the goal for London’s transport.
Not “an efficient transport system”.
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“Any time we don’t have crowding during rush hour, there’ll be a receiver in the mayor’s office.
Why, listen, don’t you see? That’s the proof of our life and vitality?”
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“This book is, in part, the story of a bad idea: the notion that our cities should be shaped by
the needs of cars, rather than people”.
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“By diminishing public space, the automobile has made once-great cities terrible places to live”.
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“We cannot solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
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“Experience tells us that road building won’t solve the problems we face. Now is the time for brave and creative decision-making, not a return to road building policies that were tried
and failed in the 1990s.”
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“Even if we do all the things proposed by the Mayor’s Transport Strategy, including the
unfunded stuff, congestion will still increase by 60% by 2031.”
No. It won’t.
Partly, because we don’t want it to.
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“What the hell’s a Freeway?
Eight lanes of shimmering cement; smooth, safe, fast.
Traffic jams will be a thing of the past.”
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Building faster roads creates wealth.We could build a series of flyovers into central
London, allowing the wealth to spread outwards.
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Inner Orbital Tunnel = £30bn?
Crossrail 2 = £12bn?
Crossrail 3 = £12bn?
Crossrail 3½ = £6bn?
Total for 2½ more Crossrails = £30bnTa-daaah!
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“It’s no use having complete calm on the top deck of a bus, if that bus is itself beached in
the traffic like an expiring whale, or indeed if it forms a queue of expiring whales.”
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"I believe a city is more civilised not when it has highways but when a child on a tricycle is able to move about everywhere with ease and
safety."
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Street-pricing
Workplace parking levies
Time/size/emission restrictions
Options!
More Crossrails
Better public realm
Better cycling provision
Bus (+ tram?) investment
Appliance of new technologies
Supportive infrastructure investment
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“Even if a zero-emission miracle-car, running on tap-water and yielding only lavender-scented exhaust, appeared in dealerships tomorrow, it would not solve
the fundamental problem…”
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“…The automobile was never an appropriate technology for cities. As a form of mass
transportation for the world, it is a disaster”.
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“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public
transportation."
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“The measure of any great civilisation is its cities, and a measure of a city’s greatness is to
be found in the quality of its public spaces, its streets, parks and squares.”