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John Whitelegg
Living Streets June 2014
Putting sustainable transport at the heart of elections
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Groundhog Day
• Mayer Hillman
• Design of First Pedestrian-Oriented New Town in the UK (with Jonas Lehrman), 1956
• Hook New Town design (1961)
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..and again
• Walking is Transport (Policy Studies Institute, 1979)
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…and again
• Rod Tolley (editor)
• The greening of urban transport. Planning for walking and cycling in Western cities (1997)
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So what do we know?
• Walking is very healthy
• Walking is very cheap
• Walking is convivial
• Walking nurtures high quality urban design
• Walking has carbon reduction potential
• Walking reduces air pollution
• Walking is a public health issue
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Appleyardresearch
replicated in Bristol
by Josh Hart, Living Streets
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www.livingstreets.org.uk
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• UK National Travel Survey, 2012, reports a 27% decline in walking in the period 1995-2012
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Jan Gehl “Cities for People”
• We have extensive information about what can and should be done
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International charter on walking
• 34 actions that can be implemented quickly and inexpensively
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The bigger picture
• Vision Zero
• Zero carbon
• Think Space
• Think Time
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Amount of space required to transport the same number of people by car, bus or bicycle
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What can a government do?
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Outer layers
• Internalise external cost so that all modes pay the full costs imposed on society as a whole
• Eliminate subsidy
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Inner layers
• Implement all the urban design principles in Gehl (2010), pages 232-245
• Reallocate highway space
• Reallocate highway time
• Adopt full network planning for walk/cycle
• Total system-wide, default 20mph limits
• Real democracy at local level
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