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John Whitelegg

Putting sustainable transport at the heart of elections. John Whitelegg. Living Streets June 2014. Groundhog Day. Mayer Hillman Design of First Pedestrian-Oriented New Town in the UK (with Jonas Lehrman), 1956 Hook New Town design (1961). ..and again.

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John Whitelegg

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  1. Putting sustainable transport at the heart of elections John Whitelegg Living Streets June 2014

  2. Groundhog Day • Mayer Hillman • Design of First Pedestrian-Oriented New Town in the UK (with Jonas Lehrman), 1956 • Hook New Town design (1961)

  3. ..and again • Walking is Transport (Policy Studies Institute, 1979)

  4. …and again • Rod Tolley (editor) • The greening of urban transport. Planning for walking and cycling in Western cities (1997)

  5. So what do we know? • Walking is very healthy • Walking is very cheap • Walking is convivial • Walking nurtures high quality urban design • Walking has carbon reduction potential • Walking reduces air pollution • Walking is a public health issue

  6. Appleyard research replicated in Bristol by Josh Hart, Living Streets (2008) www.livingstreets.org.uk

  7. -27% • UK National Travel Survey, 2012, reports a 27% decline in walking in the period 1995-2012

  8. Jan Gehl “Cities for People” • We have extensive information about what can and should be done

  9. International charter on walking • 34 actions that can be implemented quickly and inexpensively

  10. The bigger picture • Vision Zero • Zero carbon • Think Space • Think Time

  11. Amount of space required to transport the same number of people by car, bus or bicycle

  12. What can a government do?

  13. Outer layers • Internalise external cost so that all modes pay the full costs imposed on society as a whole • Eliminate subsidy

  14. Inner layers • Implement all the urban design principles in Gehl (2010), pages 232-245 • Reallocate highway space • Reallocate highway time • Adopt full network planning for walk/cycle • Total system-wide, default 20mph limits • Real democracy at local level

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