The end to Portsmouths steel canyons? This article describes how Helsinki plans to make car ownership irrelevant to urban transport. In practice Portsmouth is the UK City that is perfect for urban transport innovation, due to its constrained dimensions as a flat island city. Its a shame political leadership in the city is so backwoods looking, and continues to promote the failing twentieth century model of mass car ownership as the only solution. One obvious impact of self drive cars may be that ownership of a personal car, with all the storage issues that brings, will be increasingly irrelevant. But even without that, decent public transport that does not have to compete with queues of single occupied cars, safe and efficient cycle routes, and less emphasis on providing more and more city centre parking, could help shift the balance. theguardian/cities/2014/jul/10/helsinki-shared-public-transport-plan-car-ownership-pointless
Posted on: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 06:53:33 +0000
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