EPISODE 77: Curbing Traffic with Melissa and Chris Bruntlett
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Here's a new episode for your holiday-break enjoyment. It's Doug's interview with Melissa and Chris Bruntlett about their book, Curbing Traffic, and their life in the Dutch city of Delft. Read all about it below.
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EPISODE 77: Curbing Traffic with Melissa and Chris Bruntlett
In 2019, Melissa and Chris Bruntlett and their two children moved from Vancouver to the small city of Delft in the Netherlands. The experience of transitioning to and living in a place that puts people first over automobiles forms the basis for Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives. The book, the Bruntlett's second on the lessons offered by Dutch cities, explains the many benefits of car-free and car-lite spaces, from lower anxiety and stress, better social trust, improved health and increased independence for people of all ages and abilities. Plus, as you'll hear, cities with fewer cars are quiet!
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Comments
I respect and appreciate Melissa and Chris work, own the first book, and will buy the second. So with that preface, I wanted to know if anyone else was a little uncomfortable with the use of "traffic." Bicycles are traffic, as are pedestrian. The CROW manual for cycling describes itself as a " Design manual for bicycle traffic quantity." Moreover, we can't solve traffic framed as "delay" with cycling because of induced demand. I think what we are arguing for is traffic that is compatible with human spaces versus automobile traffic.
T Douthat
2022-01-07 20:33:07 +0000 UTC
