It's incredible how much space is given to a few people in motor vehicles vs so many more people on foot or wheels. It's a vast inequity.
Nowhere is this more stark than #ShibuyaCrossing; the world's busiest pedestrian crossing with as many as 3,000 people crossing at a time. Compared to around 12 cars fromone direction of the junction in one sequence. #Urbanism #CitiesForPeople
@velobetty it's only an inequity if you consider people on foot can never be inside of cars, or people in cars can never be on foot. it's available to all people in vehicles and all people on foot equally. anyone can choose their mode of transport. this video also doesn't show the busses that regularly transit the intersection.
@velobetty this is obviously false, a highway carrying busses full of people moves way more people than a highway full of people walking, even if it's full.
@sneak Totally irrelevant. This has nothing to do with highways at all, it's about cities. There aren't highways of buses here and it's like saying boats carry more people than can swim. Totally irrelevant.
It's about the majority of space being afforded to the minority of people. Motor vehicles occupy lots of space because they're a hugely inefficient method of transport and not appropriate in cities.
I really don't feel the need to explain this again so that's all from me.
@sneak @velobetty as someone who is going through that intersection often I wished the sidewalks would be larger. Shibuya is really crowded, even more since the borders reopening.
I wouldn't be against having only 1 lane for each way and even restrain this district only to buses, residents and professional vehicles or convert one of those to a bicycle lane.
@sneak No amount of people could fit into cars or buses that would equal the number of people on foot or using wheelchairs because the roads just couldn't carry that number of people in motor vehicles.
It can never be equitable even if everybody had access to the motor vehicles which they don't in any case for various reasons including cost.
Motor vehicles prevent equity in cities, not provide it.