Integrating with the current infrastructure

Post #411,739 by drook 7/13/16 10:45:18 AM 7/13/16 10:45:18 AM Reply	Integrating with the current infrastructure To expand on the last point a bit: New modes of transport don't just integrate with the current transport network. Look at bikes - literally hundreds of millions if not billions of daily users worldwide for a century, and yet we're only just now getting wise to the idea that some separate infrastructure for them would be a good thing. Cars co-opted and displaced carriages from their infrastructure pretty thoroughly. If something compellingly better than walking comes along it could co-opt our current sidewalks. Main reason I don't see that happening is that in order to replace walking you'd have to do it for virtually everyone. That ain't happening. -- Drew
Post #411,740 by pwhysall 7/13/16 10:47:20 AM 7/13/16 10:47:20 AM Reply	Cars were rapidly massively better than carriages ...and were also pretty much of a size and shape, too. Also, that took place in a much less-regulated world.
Post #411,741 by drook 7/13/16 10:56:03 AM 7/13/16 10:56:03 AM Reply	Agreed That's why I said displacing walking won't happen. You can fantasize a sci-fi future where people have real hoverboards that self-drive so you can just stand on them while they whisk you along. Forget the tech, just assume it's possible that these things could take up no more room than the toys we're currently calling hoverboards. Who's going to pay to give them to everyone? Because if you don't, the slow walkers are going to get in the way of the floaters. When cars replaced carriages, those who couldn't afford them eventually moved to the sidewalks. Take over the sidewalks and where to the poor folks go? -- Drew
Post #411,767 by mmoffitt 7/13/16 3:18:05 PM 7/13/16 3:18:05 PM Reply	I want the conveyors from Caves of Steel.
Post #418,144 by CRConrad 5/15/17 4:35:00 AM 5/15/17 4:35:00 AM Reply	Interestingly, for a while in between there, as bicycles replaced horses for riding... ...bikes were all over streets and roads too, and much more numerous than automobiles. Just as well as talking about how "bikes need a separate infrastructure", you could argue that they already had one, which was then usurped by the car -- then the indignation can be all about "why didn't they build a separate infrastructure _for cars_?". Like, "Stay on your motorways, and off our country roads and city streets!" -- Christian R. Conrad Same old username (as above), but now on iki.fi (Yeah, yeah, it redirects to the same old GMail... But just in case I ever want to change.)
Post #418,153 by Ashton 5/15/17 2:08:06 PM 5/15/17 2:08:06 PM Reply	My first encounter with København.. The tiny Sprite was surrounded by hundreds of BICYCLES (tis was in '60.) They loved the little red car. Smart, them Danes..

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