09-05-2024, 03:40 PM
(09-05-2024, 03:10 PM)taylortbb Wrote:(09-05-2024, 01:44 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: Lets frame this around roads. Your local residential street is empty a lot of the time, on Sunday's it's probably almost never used, so are would you think it reasonable for the city to close your road on Sundays?
Yes, that's why there's a movement called "car free Sundays" where they close portions of the road network during lower traffic times to make room for other things. It's great, but it doesn't mean we should have "car free rush hours".
Actually, car free rush hour would be an immense improvement in rush hour--I can personally attest. But leaving that aside, I was illustrating the double standard to which applies to people driving vs. not driving.
Why is it not just acceptable but "just makes sense" for transit riders to see a significant delay or even complete loss of mobility on Sundays, when a person driving a car would find it intolerable to experience the same.
Hell, we tried doing temporary bike lanes during COVID, and drivers were not inhibited in the slightest, but even the appearance of being limited even a tiny bit was so intolerable that the project was cancelled early in Cambridge, and has not been mentioned again. And yet, during the pandemic, transit riders faced massive cuts to service which took years to be reversed.
It is simply remarkable how blind we are to the double standard here.