[George Liu]

Hi Kate, I’m dropping you a line to test the threaded reply function in this forum. This is a reply to a reply.

[George Liu]

Hi Kate, I’m dropping you a line to test the threaded reply function in this forum. This is a reply to your original post.

[George Liu]

Hi Arnout, yes, this looks like your classic “stroad”. As neither Lior nor I are traffic engineers, we’ve focused on the urban design side of bicycle infrastructure. You could define latent demand as a decreasing function of travel distance, but this would be roughly true for all modes, and an easy counterargument would be that people drive now, and people will always drive. There would be slim evidence for your imagined case in an imagined world with better cycling infra. Perhaps more convincing to stress our responsibility to create safe streets and pleasant environments for people outside of motor vehicles? A minimum level of provisions even if only a handful of people use those provisions? In other words, taking an idea like Vision Zero seriously. I find this a thoughtful read: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/2/2/forgiving-design-vs-the-forgiveness-of-slow-speeds

[George Liu]

Hi Everyone! An excellent first day of forum posts. It was a pleasure reading your posts and great getting to know you all 🙂

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