Fast cycling isn’t really compatible with walkable culture. It needs some level of infrastructure for separation (lanes, lights, crossings, etc) to prevent collisions. I don’t understand the fascination with fast cycling for anything except for sports, exercise or long distance travel.
Slow cycling and walking don’t need any such infrastructure and that’s commonly considered as a walkable area. It brings roughly 1 km radius in a 5-10 minute zone and that’s enough area for at least 60-70% of required facilities (school, police station, fire station, hospital, groceries, bakery, shopping, transit stops).
and here i feel we’ve overcorrected.
Fast biking is absolutely fine (i have an e-bike, it’s very nice) and doesn’t require any insane infrastructure, just some wider straighter bike paths between more significant and far apart destinations.
like i’m sorry but i’m not gonna bike to the next town over at 15km/h, and those routes aren’t going to have lots of pedestrians.
A big road having bike lanes is perfectly fine. Moreover it’s encouraging to see people talking of putting bike lanes for commuters. But that’s a bikeable area, not a walkable one. And these 2 make sense in diff situations.
As long as kids and old people are able to walk or slow cycle most places, unsupervised (in a 20-40 minute radius around their homes), I’m happy with that. A place suitable for these 2 demographics is walkable for almost everyone else as well.
Fast cycling isn’t really compatible with walkable culture. It needs some level of infrastructure for separation (lanes, lights, crossings, etc) to prevent collisions. I don’t understand the fascination with fast cycling for anything except for sports, exercise or long distance travel.
Slow cycling and walking don’t need any such infrastructure and that’s commonly considered as a walkable area. It brings roughly 1 km radius in a 5-10 minute zone and that’s enough area for at least 60-70% of required facilities (school, police station, fire station, hospital, groceries, bakery, shopping, transit stops).
and here i feel we’ve overcorrected.
Fast biking is absolutely fine (i have an e-bike, it’s very nice) and doesn’t require any insane infrastructure, just some wider straighter bike paths between more significant and far apart destinations.
like i’m sorry but i’m not gonna bike to the next town over at 15km/h, and those routes aren’t going to have lots of pedestrians.
A big road having bike lanes is perfectly fine. Moreover it’s encouraging to see people talking of putting bike lanes for commuters. But that’s a bikeable area, not a walkable one. And these 2 make sense in diff situations.
As long as kids and old people are able to walk or slow cycle most places, unsupervised (in a 20-40 minute radius around their homes), I’m happy with that. A place suitable for these 2 demographics is walkable for almost everyone else as well.