| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Cars, Cherry Trees, Chiswick and Carbon | |
| Posted by: | Michael Robinson | |
| Date/Time: | 24/02/20 22:28:00 |
| You may think it is a “logical fallacy” but I’ve given a reference to dozens of examples where traffic evaporation has happened so there must be a flaw in your logic. Of course some people will give up driving if journeys become more inconvenient. People aren’t brainless automata that do the same thing all the time if it no longer makes sense. Traffic is just the sum of thousands of human decisions and people can decide to do things differently. Clearly other things will affect driving as well. No point driving if there is nowhere to park and parking space has been reduced in London. Market forces - Developers can make more per square foot from other uses than they can from parking and no need to provide much parking if there are alternatives. What is the source of your claim that journey miles have remained static? The latest TfL Transport in London report shows a steady decline in car traffic levels. It has flattened over the last 2 years, perhaps because of the large number of Ubers driving around and around. http://content.tfl.gov.uk/travel-in-london-report-12.pdf You are misunderstanding the point about traffic evaporation. If road capacity is reduced, fewer people drive. That doesn’t mean that things get much better for the people still driving, it just means there are fewer of them. If you want to really free up space on the road, that will need some form of road pricing. I think that will be inevitable within the next 10 years. Also you seem to be thinking about road capacity in term of numbers of metal boxes rather than numbers of people. At the peak, the cycle lane on the Embankment carries more people than the other 3 lanes put together. Private cats with an average of about 1.1 people per car are a hugely inefficient use of road space, even more so when you factor in parking space. |