John Dales (Director, Urban Movement) Ideas for London presentation

@johnstreetdales j.dales@urbanmovement.co.uk
Ideas for London: Transport

Transport is a means to an end.
A greater London is the goal for
London’s transport.
Not “an efficient transport system”.

“Any time we don’t have crowding during rush
hour, there’ll be a receiver in the mayor’s office.
Why, listen, don’t you see?
That’s the proof of our life and vitality?”

“This book is, in part, the story of a bad idea:
the notion that our cities should be shaped by
the needs of cars, rather than people”.

“By diminishing public space, the automobile has
made once-great cities terrible places to live”.

Towards a fine City for People
2004

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"Those who cannot remember the past are
condemned to repeat it."

“We cannot solve problems by using the same
kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

“Experience tells us that road building won’t
solve the problems we face. Now is the time
for brave and creative decision-making, not a
return to road building policies that were tried
and failed in the 1990s.”

“Even if we do all the things proposed by the
Mayor’s Transport Strategy, including the
unfunded stuff, congestion will still increase by
60% by 2031.”
No. It won’t.
Partly, because we don’t want it to.

What kind of London do we want?

“What the hell’s a Freeway?
Eight lanes of shimmering cement;
smooth, safe, fast.
Traffic jams will be a thing of the past.”

Building faster roads creates wealth.
We could build a series of flyovers into central
London, allowing the wealth to spread
outwards.

Inner Orbital Tunnel = £30bn?
Crossrail 2 = £12bn?
Crossrail 3 = £12bn?
Crossrail 3½ = £6bn?
Total for 2½ more Crossrails = £30bn
Ta-daaah!

“It’s no use having complete calm on the top
deck of a bus, if that bus is itself beached in
the traffic like an expiring whale, or indeed if it
forms a queue of expiring whales.”

"I believe a city is more civilised not when it
has highways but when a child on a tricycle is
able to move about everywhere with ease and
safety."

Street-pricing
Workplace parking levies
Time/size/emission restrictions
Options!
More Crossrails
Better public realm
Better cycling provision
Bus (+ tram?) investment
Appliance of new technologies
Supportive infrastructure investment

“Even if a zero-emission miracle-car,
running on tap-water and yielding only
lavender-scented exhaust, appeared in
dealerships tomorrow, it would not solve
the fundamental problem…”

“…The automobile was never an appropriate
technology for cities. As a form of mass
transportation for the world, it is a disaster”.

“A developed country is not a place where the
poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public
transportation."

“The measure of any great civilisation is its
cities, and a measure of a city’s greatness is to
be found in the quality of its public spaces,
its streets, parks and squares.”

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