Comments on: Redesigning Perth’s Urban Form http://twosittingducks.com/2008/02/redesigning-perths-urban-form/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=redesigning-perths-urban-form Pining for the days when blogs were cutting edge Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Jordan Brock http://twosittingducks.com/2008/02/redesigning-perths-urban-form/comment-page-1/#comment-242 Jordan Brock Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:13:59 +0000 http://twosittingducks.com/?p=79#comment-242 <p>While I'm not sure of the population density of Bogota, I would guess that it's not as spread out as Perth, which remains the biggest contributing factor to the culture of the car. Until high density living (the type that is slowly coming to Northbridge and Mounts Bay for example), the viability of a "people friendly" setup is unlikely. Sure things could be done to help this along: a toll on the freeways, a congestion tax for the city (imagine the outcry from retailers!) and more pedestrian only areas.</p> <p>There was a great article in Wired in 2004 about a city in Denmark that made some pretty radical changes to their traffic setup: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.12/traffic.html</p> While I’m not sure of the population density of Bogota, I would guess that it’s not as spread out as Perth, which remains the biggest contributing factor to the culture of the car. Until high density living (the type that is slowly coming to Northbridge and Mounts Bay for example), the viability of a “people friendly” setup is unlikely. Sure things could be done to help this along: a toll on the freeways, a congestion tax for the city (imagine the outcry from retailers!) and more pedestrian only areas.

There was a great article in Wired in 2004 about a city in Denmark that made some pretty radical changes to their traffic setup: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.12/traffic.html

]]> By: Anton Chigurh http://twosittingducks.com/2008/02/redesigning-perths-urban-form/comment-page-1/#comment-223 Anton Chigurh Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:37:23 +0000 http://twosittingducks.com/?p=79#comment-223 <p>Some good points. But to answer your question: the cars enjoy the Beach views (not just Cottesloe either) views so that the poor and lower class can drive there from their eastern suburbs homes enjoy our egalitarian beaches, and then leave their cigarrette butss and empty tinnies and go home. And why do they need to drive? Because the public transport services to the beaches, especially on weekeneds, is so poor!</p> Some good points. But to answer your question: the cars enjoy the Beach views (not just Cottesloe either) views so that the poor and lower class can drive there from their eastern suburbs homes enjoy our egalitarian beaches, and then leave their cigarrette butss and empty tinnies and go home. And why do they need to drive? Because the public transport services to the beaches, especially on weekeneds, is so poor!

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