I think this game is called car jam mania or something like that. The cars can’t turn and you have to figure out how to get them out before the timer runs out and the cops show up to start issuing citations. The more citations get handed out the lower your score :(
Bus and Train service into the city can easily pass $15 round trip even with monthly passes. It was so infuriating to have to listen to people who already pay $600+ for a garage already crying about having to pay $15. If you live in New York City you know the area they wanted to tax has almost no parking before 7 pm except for commercial vehicles, and it is $5+ an hour (based on area, and increasing in cost by how long you stay) to even do that. And to make it worse was how many of those upset would be people from Upstate and New Jersey who only come to NYC 2x a year if that.
Bike lanes are proven to increase revenue for businesses in their vicinity. Car parking takes up valuable space in a city which could be used more productively.
Many places just lowered the speed limits so they could narrow the lanes and then put in the bike lanes and kept the parking. Or get rid of left turning lanes or make alternating streets one way so left turning lanes aren't needed.
This is a great way to do it too! Many streets even have a 40km/h speed limit but are built wide enough to accommodate 80km/h, so drivers often speed and increase fatalities.
Now if we could just teach this to the general population. The number of times that I've gotten yelled at to "get off the road and use the sidewalk" has me prepared to make a wearable "share the road" sign.
Ok but bike lanes are just perpetuating the problem, which is that people need to travel too far to get to things. What we need is zoning reform, encouraging commercial construction in residential neighborhoods.
By all means, build the bike lanes. But my point is that it's like going vegan by ordering a salad with your steak. Adding bike lanes won't make cities less car-centric.
The point of a city is all the things that you can journey too. If you just want the things in your local neighborhood then you can find that in small towns in the middle of nowhere. However in a large city a short journey of beyond walking distance is the real goal. We need more bike lanes and public transit!
We need zoning reforms because people shouldn't have to get to go far to get the basics (milk or whatever your culture sees as basics). However that doesn't change any need for getting people around.
I think you're being down voted bc of your bike statement, but you are correct that zoning changes are required. It is a multifold solution.
If you live in suburban hell and need to commute 20 miles to work as a result, the community won't adopt cycling as much as a community that has mixed zoning that puts commercial and residential closer together and residents can walk or bike.
Nonsense. I live in nyc and use my bike to get around to a lot of places. You basically can't get a city more dense and mixed commercial-residential than New York