Ahmed wrote:Of course, there are also forces that sometimes oppose these "Americanization" tendencies. *
With regard to transport, what is currently being pursued is the intensification of flows; in this sense, efforts in the field of bicycle lanes or tramways should be interpreted as adding to the automobile and not as a progressive substitution. It is a saturation principle that is also observed in the field of energy.
Hi Ahmed. I do not see how it would not be a substitution attempt when we reduce the traffic lanes for cycle lanes.
In two agglos where I drive regularly, areas where we drove a car not too bad on 2 lanes were put in a lane where we travel very badly, while on half an hour of observation pass only three peeled and one mowed on the bike lane.
This amounts to a confiscation of the public space for the benefit of a small minority, while the penalization of the circulation of the majority results in more over-pollution! It is thus a counterproductive ideological disposition, like almost all of those called ecologists.
Pragmatism is to respond to the need of people, we must stop taking for idiots (if they take the car is that they have good reasons), and to promote the fluidity of the circulation, which reduces pollution and, more importantly, saves people's life time that they can spend more use at work or with their families than in traffic jams.