“A cycle path built through part of Sydney’s inner west will be ripped up on Tuesday, five months after it was completed, due to a council decision described by riders as a knee-jerk reaction to complaints from residents.”
“A cycle path built through part of Sydney’s inner west will be ripped up on Tuesday, five months after it was completed, due to a council decision described by riders as a knee-jerk reaction to complaints from residents.”
the anglosphere can just be considered lost at this point tbh 🤷♀️
@k_o_t @ajsadauskas@lemmy.ml It really is difficult to overstate just how backwards this decision is.
A lot of the problem is that many local councils outsource these decisions to external contractors and consultants who don’t have a lot of expertise in barrier-protected bike lanes and modern Urbanism.
These contractors pretend that induced demand doesn’t exist, they look at moving cars rather than moving people, and give really awful advice. That seems to be what’s happened here.
So even where you have good barrier-protected cycling infrastructure in place, as you have here, as soon as a couple of NIMBYs complain that they want more on-street parking, it ends up getting bulldozed.
It’s backwards, car-brained thinking of the worst kind.
It truly is time to make a choice: the NIMBYs or the planet.