Urbanism

[tomh009]

They call it tactical urbanism in Vancouver.  Whatever they call it it's nice to see they "hit a 50 percent “active transit” target, 5 years ahead of schedule. A short film shows how they did it."

What this means is 50% of the trips are made by foot, bicycle or transit.  Which is very high for a city the size of Vancouver (NYC is still higher, but it's a much larger city).

Some contributing factors:

• Good transit (helps with the transit part, obviously)
  
• Good bicycle infrastructure (bicycling)
  
• Large high-density core (helps especially walking and bicycling)
  
• Congested traffic and limited parking in core (drives trips to all active modes)
  
• Limited parking availability in condos and apartment buildings (reduces car ownership)
  

There is no silver bullet, and every city is different.  But that's not to take anything away from Vancouver's achievement.