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An excellent episode of @notjustbikes's Urbanist Agenda with @BrentToderian.
5 stages of urban planning. 1: the wrong thing (car-centric design). 2: the wrong thing, but better (EVs are better than ICE cars). 3: have your cake and eat it too (widen roads while adding bike/transit lanes). 4: doing the right thing, badly (painted bike lanes). Alt 4: only the low-hanging fruit (bike lanes in parks). Finally, 5: doing the right thing, well.
Says @brisbane did stage 3 when he was here.
@jimcullen @notjustbikes @BrentToderian @brisbane Sorry, but Stage 5 is where the hard work begins: 5a: Do the right thing, but very poorly, e.g. build segregated cycle lanes but they end whenever an intersection would have required redesigning. 5b: Do the right thing, but incompletely, e.g. only planning for local bike traffic, not fast commuting (because cyclists only ever pootle around at 3 mph, stopping for coffee or smelling the wayside flowers every half mile). 5c: Do the right things for cyclists but at the detriment of pedestrians and public transport, like 'floating' bus stops. 5d: Putting bollards everywhere because SUVs and dented Amazon vans mount every curb and park everywhere.
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