Re: With gas prices major problem: opportunity for carfree program

Aaron said:

>Surely we cannot go straight for a 100% carfree world, not least because car-like vehicles are needed for emergency services.

Emergency services are a bit of a red herring. The
actual number of trips is very small and most of
the police activity can be on bikes. The number of
ambulance runs will be down significantly now that
people aren't getting hurt in car crashes. 

Except for Venice and Fes, no existing city has streets
that are too narrow for emergency services. When
we narrow the streets after cars are gone, we must
make sure not to make them so narrow that fire trucks
cannot serve all buildings. This is not difficult,
and smaller fire trucks are already in wide use in
Japan in any case.

So, there's really no reason to delay on the
conversion to carfree cities.

Best,

Joel





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