"HOW TO ACCELERATE THE CONSTRUCTION OF BICYCLES AND STREETS FOR PEOPLE DURING COVID-19"
Webinar organized by Ciudad Emergente within the framework of the International Global Designing Cities Initiative sponsored by NACTO. In this space we share various national and international experiences of tactical response to inspire municipalities, decision makers and organizations to accelerate changes in their streets in favor of people.
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"For many years, cities applied developed street design standards to promote freeways and automobile use over other uses, transforming cities into highly congested, unsafe, polluted, and inhospitable places for humans."
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“We are in a context of multidimensional, interdependent and global crisis. The health crisis is one of the crises, but we are also involved in an ecological, social, environmental, and economic crisis, which in Chile also has important political borders. ”
“It is necessary to rethink the way in which cities face the challenges of mobility, especially when this crisis is over, which is when there will be a massive return to places of study and work. For this reason, it is necessary to plan the communes and the city, where the bicycle mode will be relevant as a mode of transport to maintain the social distance of users ”
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"The pedestrian needs more space, for which they removed the parking lots and extended sidewalks for the pedestrian to walk down the street, redistributing the public space and making the pedestrian understand that the street is not only for the car but for everyone."
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"The city that is coming and you have to act more than a long-term intervention, they have to be immediate actions and hopefully to have the necessary resources."
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"We must take advantage of this moment, which is unique, to act and accelerate changes NOW towards reducing the use of the car and promoting the use of the bicycle."