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Then they need to be educated. I do not see how we can move away from an automobile dominated urban infrastructure unless the public and their elected representives agree that we need to do so and plan accordingly. I can buy a bicycle or invent new and better bicycles on my own, but I cannot create a bicycle friendly infrastructure without community planing and consent.
I absolutely agree with you. If we made every 10th street in a city into an automated guideway/bike safe corridor, we can make the corner.
Here is an illustration of green space recovery:
Well, it seems like progress was made on this thread insofar as I understood positions better after their elaboration.
As an aside, I have a friend who is an urban planner and although largely informed by the dogma of economics, his opinions have shifted greatly on the topic of peak oil as I'm sure has been the case with many others in bureaucracies around the world.
Can changes be made quickly enough? I don't know, but that's the struggle and the push no matter the innovations. Planning & bureaucracies are slow, but we've never seen the pressures mounting so quickly for dramatic change that quite probably will affect the processes of planning and bureaucracies themselves!
There is an extraordinary book Black Swans.
Survivors will be the ones that adapted. Graveyard, which we largely ignore, will bare silent testimony for those who do not.
Which ones we will be is being determined now.
Here are two questions for your urban planner:
1. Do they have a 2020 plan?
2. Is their 2020 plan based on oil at $50 or $300 a barrel?
Plans built on uncertain forecasts (note all forecasts) are grave exposures to Black Swans, like Peak Oil.