Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast...
by jandrese on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @01:08PM
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The bit you are missing is the space efficiency. Cars take up the most space by a large margin and getting people into more dense forms of transit (anything else) frees up space to be more efficiently used.
Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast...
by mitthrowaway2 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @01:39PM
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> The bike lane space has to come from somewhere
> though more people in bikes and out of cars free’s up so much infrastructure that it can make less space work even better for cars
Yes, you've reiterated my point...
Street space really is zero-sum, though more people in bikes and out of cars free’s up so much infrastructure that it can make less space work even better for cars- I’m sure urban designers are aware of this.
The major issue I presume that is faced in urban design is how to handle people coming from far away, the regional hub/spoke design (with train stations around a radial that have good parking allowing train access into the city) is not something actively pursued by advanced economies for some (presumably good) reason.