| Comment | I don't think many people truly want to disband all roads. Maybe some people say this or something like it in jest, but I don't think anyone's seriously suggesting getting rid of roads full stop. Maybe reducing spending on new road construction, but that's a different point.
And, not meaning to be unnecessarily provocative to you here, but it needs to be said: quite often people aren't really listening to what people are calling for. You see it on social media a lot, Facebook in particular, where every proposed measure to improve the situation for other road users is viewed as a "war on the motorist" or a "war on cars". I think this is people seeing or fabricating a conflict where there isn't one.
In truth what's being proposed (and advocated for by a lot of people) is somewhere in the middle, just a simple rebalancing of how we allocate finite space and make it work for more people. It's not even like it's without precedent, as I say. Like Glasgow is inventing some mad scheme that's never been tried before. It's been tried and tested in cities across the world over the last 10-20 years, with some cities in the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain having done this decades and decades ago, so we've lots of examples of success to follow. |
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