From SFU City City Program – Next Generation Transportation
Beyond the Anglosphere — Perspectives from Montreal, Europe, and Latin America
Stockholm — Vision Zero
Stockholm — Vision Zero
One of the paradoxes of transportation systems is that air, sea and rail sectors are characterized by a safety culture where accidents are rare and exhaustively investigated, and systemic improvements are made to avoid repetition, whereas road networks appear to have an inbuilt but never explicitly stated tolerance for an “acceptable” level of serious injury and death.
Sweden was the first country to refute this paradigm with Vision Zero, whose concept is equally simple and powerful: That death and serious injury in the roading system is unacceptable and the transportation system should be designed to prevent it. As a result, Sweden now has the safest roads of any country on earth.
Daniel Firth, the Chief Strategy Officer for Transport for the City of Stockholm, will present on how Stockholm is applying Vision Zero in a dense urban context.
April 12
11 AM PDT)
Free webinar, but reservations required. Reserve on Eventbrite
Paris – Reclaiming the city for its people from its cars (April 19, 10 AM PDT)
Vienna — Affordable and inclusive greatness (April 26, 12 PM PDT)
Cycled to Gastown yesterday for the first time in ages – was on the parked car protected bike lanes along Union St and Expo Blvd. What a treat. If only they were along my nemesis – Killer Kingsway.
Would point out that motorists have the nasty habit of blocking crosswalk intersects while waiting for peds to cross. No idea how to prevent that.
Many motorists on their phones – hate those mofos. The only way to stop that is to treat phones like open liquor. Lock them in the trunk, or make it illegal to have them turned on.
Motorists don’t realize how cycling is taking off. They’re wearing blinders along the same old boring linear routes. They don’t see the change on routes like 10th, or CVG. Interesting to note that more cyclists are using panniers. I used to be almost an anomaly.
Ironic timing with the terrorist attack in Stockholm today.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39531108
Very hard to defend against attackers willing to die, it’s a step above the inattentive driver. Long term remove large vehicles that make mismatch with protective devices.