.jdavidsonNYC spoke to 'Walkable City' author JeffSpeckFAICP about engineers’ (and politicians’ and voters’) stubborn resistance to change but also the surprising victories that this past decade has brought
since 2007 and was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2002. He is the author of Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York.The urban planner and writer Jeff Speck has spent years arguing the same deceptively simple point: We should be able to walk where we live. That principle, though, runs counter to the way this country — and much of the world — has been built over the past 100 years.
When my colleagues and I began all this more than 30 years ago, I had a strong feeling of shouting into the wind. We had confidence in the correctness of our mission but not that it would be embraced. So my frustration at the irrationality of the human species has been tempered by wins we didn’t expect. We spent decades arguing for granny flats, also called accessory dwelling units or ADUs, thinking that they’re cute but they’re never going to have much of an impact.
I’m positive it’s possible to get that back. I need to emphasize that the healthiest and most wealth-generating and sustainable cities would not have cars in them. The fewer cars in your city, the better a city it will be, by any measure. That said, it’s perfectly possible to engineer street space in which only a fluke condition, like a driver’s heart attack, would cause the sort of bloodshed that we see every day in almost every American city.
Mixing is ideal, but you do want corridors where you have bike lanes away from the street. The principle is regional separation, local mixing. But, of course, it brings other problems. Congestion pricing is supposed to alleviate gridlock. If it ever does get implemented in New York, and it’s successful, is there a chance that by making traffic flow more smoothly it might cause more crashes?
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