Hello All,
https://www.census.gov/popclock/
The world human population continues to increase on the finite geography of Spaceship Earth ........
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle
and worldwide motor vehicle registrations continue to increase ....... about 10 fold from 1960 to 2014.
The number of motor vehicles may be reaching a saturation level in some areas ..... where any further increase in the number of vehicles is counterproductive because of overcrowding traffic delay.
Recently in Singapore:
"Road Traffic Act of Singapore. The Road Traffic Act limits the speed of all vehicles travelling along Singapore roads to 50km/h, unless otherwise stated.Nov 28, 2016
https://futurism.com/...o-its-roads-in-2018/
The city-state of Singapore has announced a plan to reduce the vehicle growth rate from 0.25 percent per year to 0 percent for cars and motorcycles. Due to the limited space available, Singapore controls the number of vehicles on the road to a great degree. [emphasis added]
http://www.businessinsider.com/...-car-free-ban-2017-8
"13 cities that are starting to ban cars"
"Oslo plans to permanently ban all cars from its city center by 2019 — six years before Norway's country-wide ban would go into effect."
I admit to a bit of propaganda in image size here to emphasize the point ..... about real estate used by various modes of transport.
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Whether autonomous vehicles will add or diminish traffic congestion is being debated and we probably will not know until sufficient numbers of AV's are in the wild .... but if the AV bicycle sensing works well ..... they may be a huge improvement over human driven motorcars.
This trend to ban motorcars and limit motorcar speed .... if continued ..... could bode well for cyclists ..... and offset some of the 'bikelash' we are seeing to traffic calming and separated bike lanes here in the US.
(Looking for some good news .... to look forward to ..... after reading of all the terrible motorist/bicycle crashes.)
What do you think?
Cheers, Neal
+1 mph Faster
https://www.census.gov/popclock/
The world human population continues to increase on the finite geography of Spaceship Earth ........
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle
and worldwide motor vehicle registrations continue to increase ....... about 10 fold from 1960 to 2014.
The number of motor vehicles may be reaching a saturation level in some areas ..... where any further increase in the number of vehicles is counterproductive because of overcrowding traffic delay.
Recently in Singapore:
"Road Traffic Act of Singapore. The Road Traffic Act limits the speed of all vehicles travelling along Singapore roads to 50km/h, unless otherwise stated.Nov 28, 2016
https://futurism.com/...o-its-roads-in-2018/
The city-state of Singapore has announced a plan to reduce the vehicle growth rate from 0.25 percent per year to 0 percent for cars and motorcycles. Due to the limited space available, Singapore controls the number of vehicles on the road to a great degree. [emphasis added]
http://www.businessinsider.com/...-car-free-ban-2017-8
"13 cities that are starting to ban cars"
"Oslo plans to permanently ban all cars from its city center by 2019 — six years before Norway's country-wide ban would go into effect."
I admit to a bit of propaganda in image size here to emphasize the point ..... about real estate used by various modes of transport.
===============================
Whether autonomous vehicles will add or diminish traffic congestion is being debated and we probably will not know until sufficient numbers of AV's are in the wild .... but if the AV bicycle sensing works well ..... they may be a huge improvement over human driven motorcars.
This trend to ban motorcars and limit motorcar speed .... if continued ..... could bode well for cyclists ..... and offset some of the 'bikelash' we are seeing to traffic calming and separated bike lanes here in the US.
(Looking for some good news .... to look forward to ..... after reading of all the terrible motorist/bicycle crashes.)
What do you think?
Cheers, Neal
+1 mph Faster