I want to start trying to take you on
the process I’ve been as being chair of
cycle bar for five years and when I
became chair I also became student
transport and urban design and when we
try and understand how or why the
society is very car dependent we also
need to understand how society also
restricts our ability to do things so we
understand that somebody in the
wheelchair can’t cross a road if there
isn’t a drop curb but we also need to
recognize that a child that wants to
cycle to school but is prevented by
their parent because the roads are too
dangerous is also limiting and part of
what is known as the social model of
disability where society prevents what
you are more than capable of doing and
this when I joined psychopath was the
logo and it is a man on a bike wielding
a banner charging at a hill for the
vehicles and this is now the logo for
psychopath and what it shows is that
you’re trying to think beyond the
bicycle what you’re saying is it isn’t
the fact that cycling is hard or
impossible for people and for many
people with disabilities it’s easier
than walking it is a fact that we still
have a problem without way we’ve
designed our road and public realm to
enable people to use these types of
modes and if we then take an example of
bath and we analyze the road system and
this is quite complicated so I’m going
to get it quite quick is what this does
is audit the roads and try and work out
which ones are missing certain types of
infrastructures so black and missing
cycle tracks for the font or volume and
quantity of the traffic on it
we call it and we remove all of those
roads that are bad so we’re basically
getting down to the blue ones
all of those routes which are isolated
and socially unsafe and all of those
routes which somebody in a wheelchair
bike cannot access because of a set of
steps or set of bollards that are too
narrow you end up with this and this is
bath for most people who are not cycling
and this also reflects in the fact that
one in a hundred kids only cycle to
school and of people in living a math
path residents that cycle to work it’s
one in 20 but of those one in four are
women there’s not 50/50 and we have to
recognize that the social model of
disability has created this for us but
there are ways we can think about cities
where we can try and make them more
livable where we can take the idea that
we need to prioritize road cycling
walking and public transport and try and
make it just that little bit harder to
get around by car not impossible but
recognize that that’s not what you want
people to do and this approach is what
low traffic neighborhoods is about it’s
about identifying residential groups or
roads grouping them together usually
bordered by main roads and then removing
the rat running removing that facility
as a convenient cut through now and this
is being used in more from Stowe in
London it’s called the mini Holland
scheme and the investment there wasn’t
just in low traffic neighborhoods there
was also some route network improvements
but if we look at one particular little
village area what was their village then
what they did is they played they did
weren’t sure it would work so they used
traffic regulation orders to block off a
couple of things and change put some bus
gates in just stop it so that you
couldn’t drive through there anymore and
then once it kind of settled and people
understood what they wanted but they
puts in a different scheme that actually
fixed a lot of the issues that were
initially race so they played with the
streets similarly to what New York did
with Times Square where they weren’t
sure would work so they’ve used some
filled oil drums with cement and just
put them in place and just worked out
what happened and this has resulted in
some phenomenal changes now 32 minutes
extra walking per week is what the
residents do now only nine minutes of
cycling extra but it’s got rid of ten
thousand journey car journeys within the
New Holland school and more
significantly they analyzed it and found
that it also added seven months of life
to every resident in the area just by
putting some rocks or a planter with a
tree in the road and saying no this is
not the convenient rat rod but it’s
taken six years and if we look further
afield and we look at Ghent in the
Netherlands they took this idea of
creating a circulation plan this idea
that we want cars to move around the
city in a specific way and we do not
want them to use residential areas and
they did something in one year they took
that whole idea created low traffic
neighborhoods and then reduce the amount
of residential traffic by 56 percent
overall a 12 percent drop in traffic in
one year an increase of cycling by
twenty five percent and an increase in
public transport use by nine percent
these are profound changes to a city and
we can apply that to baths we can take
the view of baths we can put the traffic
layer on from Google Maps and we can
kind of work out our distributor network
and from that we can actually identify
areas where we should be putting these
low traffic neighborhoods and we can
drill down and this has got the ABI in
it it’s also got this is a great
Pulteney Street and we can identify a
low traffic neighborhood and by putting
in a bus gate and then we can put in a
road block and changing the direction of
a road there the whole of that area
calms down because I don’t know about
you but that’s one
favorite cut-throughs to ignore the
traffic and bath workstream yeah and
it’s that sort of behavior we need to
stop yeah this is a residential area we
can take a more more residential area on
the outskirts of Bath and we can take
this area Western and we know there’s a
little bit of a rap run going down there
and it makes it hard for people to walk
or cycle in the area and we can put two
bus gates in into the area but the other
thing we’re doing here is we’re asking
to put in say some rocks in a road or
some bollards and we’re just saying look
we don’t want you as a resident
conveniently taking the route that you
want snaking your way through that
residential area we want you to get as
quick as possible
to a distributor Road to an outside road
and in doing this you create areas where
kids can play in the streets and if we
take this further we could fix the whole
of Bath we could create these fixed
neighborhoods worth walking and cycling
and the community was more connected to
each other but we still are left with a
problem which is the distributor necro
the main roads we need to fix those and
for that to happen we need to understand
we need to move more people on these
roads and we need to prioritize the
ability for people to walk and the
people to cycle and cities around the
country are beginning to put in
continuous footways yeah and also taking
out parking on these main roads and
actually putting in protected cycle
lanes and we started doing this on the
road on one side anyway on the other
side there are 23 on street car parking
stereos faces that prevent an east
flowing and cycling and this is this is
the key thing they’re playing what
you’re playing with the streets and it’s
not for people like me to ask you ask
the council to do this this you can work
with your residents associations with
your local residents with your
councilors and you can start asking them
to take this seriously and start looking
at the health benefits that this would
bring to the city and I just want to
show you one last picture this a broom
haze anybody knows bath it’s at the
bottom there’s a low Bristol Road it
takes you into all four your Park and
this at the moment is closed because
there
fishing the very very lights down there
and there’s a man pushing his child
along in the middle of street he feels
comfortable doing it and it’s that
experience that you create by closing
off roads thank you very much [Applause]
the process I’ve been as being chair of
cycle bar for five years and when I
became chair I also became student
transport and urban design and when we
try and understand how or why the
society is very car dependent we also
need to understand how society also
restricts our ability to do things so we
understand that somebody in the
wheelchair can’t cross a road if there
isn’t a drop curb but we also need to
recognize that a child that wants to
cycle to school but is prevented by
their parent because the roads are too
dangerous is also limiting and part of
what is known as the social model of
disability where society prevents what
you are more than capable of doing and
this when I joined psychopath was the
logo and it is a man on a bike wielding
a banner charging at a hill for the
vehicles and this is now the logo for
psychopath and what it shows is that
you’re trying to think beyond the
bicycle what you’re saying is it isn’t
the fact that cycling is hard or
impossible for people and for many
people with disabilities it’s easier
than walking it is a fact that we still
have a problem without way we’ve
designed our road and public realm to
enable people to use these types of
modes and if we then take an example of
bath and we analyze the road system and
this is quite complicated so I’m going
to get it quite quick is what this does
is audit the roads and try and work out
which ones are missing certain types of
infrastructures so black and missing
cycle tracks for the font or volume and
quantity of the traffic on it
we call it and we remove all of those
roads that are bad so we’re basically
getting down to the blue ones
all of those routes which are isolated
and socially unsafe and all of those
routes which somebody in a wheelchair
bike cannot access because of a set of
steps or set of bollards that are too
narrow you end up with this and this is
bath for most people who are not cycling
and this also reflects in the fact that
one in a hundred kids only cycle to
school and of people in living a math
path residents that cycle to work it’s
one in 20 but of those one in four are
women there’s not 50/50 and we have to
recognize that the social model of
disability has created this for us but
there are ways we can think about cities
where we can try and make them more
livable where we can take the idea that
we need to prioritize road cycling
walking and public transport and try and
make it just that little bit harder to
get around by car not impossible but
recognize that that’s not what you want
people to do and this approach is what
low traffic neighborhoods is about it’s
about identifying residential groups or
roads grouping them together usually
bordered by main roads and then removing
the rat running removing that facility
as a convenient cut through now and this
is being used in more from Stowe in
London it’s called the mini Holland
scheme and the investment there wasn’t
just in low traffic neighborhoods there
was also some route network improvements
but if we look at one particular little
village area what was their village then
what they did is they played they did
weren’t sure it would work so they used
traffic regulation orders to block off a
couple of things and change put some bus
gates in just stop it so that you
couldn’t drive through there anymore and
then once it kind of settled and people
understood what they wanted but they
puts in a different scheme that actually
fixed a lot of the issues that were
initially race so they played with the
streets similarly to what New York did
with Times Square where they weren’t
sure would work so they’ve used some
filled oil drums with cement and just
put them in place and just worked out
what happened and this has resulted in
some phenomenal changes now 32 minutes
extra walking per week is what the
residents do now only nine minutes of
cycling extra but it’s got rid of ten
thousand journey car journeys within the
New Holland school and more
significantly they analyzed it and found
that it also added seven months of life
to every resident in the area just by
putting some rocks or a planter with a
tree in the road and saying no this is
not the convenient rat rod but it’s
taken six years and if we look further
afield and we look at Ghent in the
Netherlands they took this idea of
creating a circulation plan this idea
that we want cars to move around the
city in a specific way and we do not
want them to use residential areas and
they did something in one year they took
that whole idea created low traffic
neighborhoods and then reduce the amount
of residential traffic by 56 percent
overall a 12 percent drop in traffic in
one year an increase of cycling by
twenty five percent and an increase in
public transport use by nine percent
these are profound changes to a city and
we can apply that to baths we can take
the view of baths we can put the traffic
layer on from Google Maps and we can
kind of work out our distributor network
and from that we can actually identify
areas where we should be putting these
low traffic neighborhoods and we can
drill down and this has got the ABI in
it it’s also got this is a great
Pulteney Street and we can identify a
low traffic neighborhood and by putting
in a bus gate and then we can put in a
road block and changing the direction of
a road there the whole of that area
calms down because I don’t know about
you but that’s one
favorite cut-throughs to ignore the
traffic and bath workstream yeah and
it’s that sort of behavior we need to
stop yeah this is a residential area we
can take a more more residential area on
the outskirts of Bath and we can take
this area Western and we know there’s a
little bit of a rap run going down there
and it makes it hard for people to walk
or cycle in the area and we can put two
bus gates in into the area but the other
thing we’re doing here is we’re asking
to put in say some rocks in a road or
some bollards and we’re just saying look
we don’t want you as a resident
conveniently taking the route that you
want snaking your way through that
residential area we want you to get as
quick as possible
to a distributor Road to an outside road
and in doing this you create areas where
kids can play in the streets and if we
take this further we could fix the whole
of Bath we could create these fixed
neighborhoods worth walking and cycling
and the community was more connected to
each other but we still are left with a
problem which is the distributor necro
the main roads we need to fix those and
for that to happen we need to understand
we need to move more people on these
roads and we need to prioritize the
ability for people to walk and the
people to cycle and cities around the
country are beginning to put in
continuous footways yeah and also taking
out parking on these main roads and
actually putting in protected cycle
lanes and we started doing this on the
road on one side anyway on the other
side there are 23 on street car parking
stereos faces that prevent an east
flowing and cycling and this is this is
the key thing they’re playing what
you’re playing with the streets and it’s
not for people like me to ask you ask
the council to do this this you can work
with your residents associations with
your local residents with your
councilors and you can start asking them
to take this seriously and start looking
at the health benefits that this would
bring to the city and I just want to
show you one last picture this a broom
haze anybody knows bath it’s at the
bottom there’s a low Bristol Road it
takes you into all four your Park and
this at the moment is closed because
there
fishing the very very lights down there
and there’s a man pushing his child
along in the middle of street he feels
comfortable doing it and it’s that
experience that you create by closing
off roads thank you very much [Applause]
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