| Comment | Just to follow your counter logic through for a minute...
1-2km is typically the max distance you'll get people walking to a given destination, such as work, before they look for alternative means of transport. Like a car, public transport, or a bike.
Exploring your suggestion, would these new walkers (presumably former cyclists, or maybe former drivers tempted by the super safe ultra walkable pavements) be voluntarily walking their commutes?
Presumably their commute distance won't have changed, unless somehow they're all suddenly working new jobs (located 1-2km from their home) that suit their new commute method of walking.
More likely, is you have people working a mix of distances from their home, as they did before, but no longer having an option to cycle. People are unlikely to walk further than 2km, so you'll see an uptick in the number of car journeys from people who work >2km or so from home.
Your two nice vehicle lanes are now filled with more cars than before, when there were cycle lanes. Traffic congestion is quickly as bad as it ever was. Congratulations, we're basically back in the same position we were before any improvements to active travel infrastructure were delivered. |
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