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Our AskAsk #3: Build 1,000 kilometres of connected, safe and direct routes per year for people riding bicycles and other micro mobility.
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Barrier
People tell us they want to ride more, and would if they had more paths and crossings and calmer streets.
But our government isn’t designing our streets for people, they’re designing them for large fast cars.
Over time we’ve allowed our streets to become noisy, traffic-filled roads and it’s keeping us from making journeys that make us feel great by walking or riding a bike or scooter.
But our government isn’t designing our streets for people, they’re designing them for large fast cars.
Over time we’ve allowed our streets to become noisy, traffic-filled roads and it’s keeping us from making journeys that make us feel great by walking or riding a bike or scooter.
Action
There’s a role for government to make decisions in everyone’s best interest: providing options for people to get around and stay healthy, form communities to come together, and kids to become independent.
The overarching goal is for everyone to have a range of options for getting around and enjoying our streets and neighbourhoods.
This can be achieved by converting some streets to quiet ways, opening the streets around schools to people who walk, ride, scoot - without traffic, safer speeds, calmer traffic and building separated cycleways.
The overarching goal is for everyone to have a range of options for getting around and enjoying our streets and neighbourhoods.
This can be achieved by converting some streets to quiet ways, opening the streets around schools to people who walk, ride, scoot - without traffic, safer speeds, calmer traffic and building separated cycleways.