tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post2149682407871896058..comments2024-03-17T08:16:42.227+01:00Comments on World Streets: The Politics of Transport in Cities: Sixteen practical things you can start to do today to combat climate change, get around in style & meet some nice peopleUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-41055398322845389992009-11-16T19:32:06.459+01:002009-11-16T19:32:06.459+01:00ZVI,
You raise an interesting point. You deem t...ZVI,<br /> <br />You raise an interesting point. You deem that Bixi bikes easier to access than your own, mainly, I suspect, because the self-owned bike requires finding/using secure parking at both ends of each trip. <br /> <br />That extra effort is worthwhile only for longer commuting trips, but shorter shopping/errand trips tip the balance for the shared-bike choice.<br /> <br />This Chris Bradshaw, Ottawa Canadanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-82146041818540026742009-11-15T21:52:11.884+01:002009-11-15T21:52:11.884+01:00As for carshare, I think this will only reduce tra...As for carshare, I think this will only reduce transport's carbon footprint<br />significantly as part of an overall strategy which restricts car ownership, e.g.<br />by charging full cost for residential parking, certainly as least as much per<br />hour as is charged for visitor parking.<br />The Jevons Paradox again helps us anticipate a problem here. <br /><br />Carshare would make higher Aaron Thomasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-38128962936048586942009-11-14T10:21:08.993+01:002009-11-14T10:21:08.993+01:00Zvi.
You have put your finger on it.
That is j...Zvi. <br /><br />You have put your finger on it. <br /><br />That is just about precisely the way that many of us here in Paris, and the other twenty-plus PBS cities that I have visited over the last couple of years, have reacted to having a handy public bike just around the corner. <br /><br />Someone, me maybe, has called them the Seven League Boots of Urban Mobility.<br /><br />But, and here worldstreetshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01696196999600921674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-8992569634901622222009-11-14T10:17:03.662+01:002009-11-14T10:17:03.662+01:00Very interesting thoughts Richard and Chris (and A...Very interesting thoughts Richard and Chris (and Aaron).<br /><br />Being in Montreal, I have quite extensive experience with the Bixi bikeshare program and can offer my own personal impressions of it's place in the transportation mix. I own two bicycles myself and thought (and still think) that the pricing model for Bixi was too expensive for Montreal. I read somewhere that a monthly or Zvi Leve, Montreal Canadanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-60892556946319401442009-11-13T19:05:53.864+01:002009-11-13T19:05:53.864+01:00> I'm concerned that it is not clear in our...> I'm concerned that it is not clear in our discussion that people disagree that carshare, bikeshare and rideshare are good things.<<br /><br />I agree with Richard Layman that things are more complicated than the above statement suggests.<br /><br />I am with Eric on his emphasis on sharing. I am myself preparing a presentation to the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome on the Chris Bradshaw, Ottawa Canadanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-23515272046184124352009-11-13T19:03:34.736+01:002009-11-13T19:03:34.736+01:00I'm concerned that it is not clear in our disc...I'm concerned that it is not clear in our discussion that people disagree that carshare, bikeshare and rideshare are good things.<br /><br /> More importantly, I'm concerned that these modes of transport can be very effective whitewash, making it look like progress is made, while actually, deaths and GHG emissions can all grow with these measures growing. Jeevon's Paradox -- Aaron Thomasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939281.post-72715360113543972272009-11-13T10:05:51.172+01:002009-11-13T10:05:51.172+01:00it really depends. I think it would depend on a r...it really depends. I think it would depend on a region and the mode split percentages. In the U.S., probably only Manhattan has a majority of households that don't own cars. So you see the impact of carsharing programs in places like DC or Arlington County, where the existence of carsharing programs in the context of a web of decent quality transit encourages more households to not own a Richard Layman, Washington DCnoreply@blogger.com