Transforming a car-clogged street into inviting shared space doesn’t always require heavy machinery, complicated reconstruction, or millions of dollars. If governments sincerely believe that their streets are so dangerous they must compel people who ride bikes to wear armor, they should instead immediately redesign their streets to make them safer so people don’t need that protection in the first place.
Yet there are so many of them that they’re running down pedestrians and therefore shouldn’t ride on sidewalks.
They shouldn’t have their own lanes because there aren’t enough of them to take away space from cars. They shouldn’t ride in streets, which are hostile, car-only zones. They look ridiculous riding around in those helmets and reflective bike gear, more like Mad Max marauders than human beings. They don’t wear helmets or reflective bike gear, jeopardizing themselves. They ride too slow, dangerously obstructing drivers. They ride too fast, terrorizing pedestrians. Never underestimate the anger directed at bicyclists. “An advanced city is not one where poor people drive cars,” Peñalosa says, “but where rich people take public transportation.” It’s like dealing with obesity by loosening your belt. You can’t build your way out of congestion. If building roads actually resulted in less traffic, then surely after sixty years of interstate highway construction we would all be cruising at highway speed. In 2021 she received the Transport for NSW Creative Award for her development of a place valuation tool for business cases.It wasn’t really about the engineering of the space, the real battle was about the culture - about changing the hearts and minds of New Yorkers, of changing their minds about who their streets were for. Tanya led the architecture and urban design workstream for the Sydney Light Rail project and continues to advise on all forms of public transport and streets design in NSW.
Previously she was acting Director of Strategic Urban Design & Place for Fast Rail design and planning. She is a thought leader on place, the role of strategic design and multi-scale methods in improving planning processes and ultimately built outcomes for people, and measuring place benefits. Tanya is currently a part of the Place and Urban Design team in Transport for NSW working across planning policy and projects. This session of YP Reads will be open to planners nationwide so prepare to meet some other young planners from right around Australia! Guest Speaker Join us for the next instalment of YP Reads where we will be discussing the book 'Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution' by Janette Sadik-Khan.
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