Why isn't this way more common?

[Mouthwash]

http://www.peachtree-city.org/documents/21/26/pathstudy.pdf

You can skim, if you like. The nitpicky stuff isn't important.

Obviously this can't be done in major urban or rural or unpopulated areas. But why is Peachtree City still alone? I use the golf cart trails almost every day. I don't have a driver's license, so they provide me with an outlet of freedom and productivity, not to mention a much more humanized environment. It's a wonderful way of life, if one can ignore the fact that Peachtree City is so incredibly boring in the first place.

 

[BvBPL]

Because urban planning is horribly complicated and political. Every zoning system is a compromise in that they have terrible, bad things about them but the alternatives are worse.

And maybe because there aren't a lot golf carts that work in bad weather.

 

[JollyRoger]

Why isn't what way more common?

 

[History_Buff]

Because people who live there by and large don't want their suburbs properly designed. What they want is of cul-de-sacs because they think they will be quieter, traffic will be slower, and the neighbourhood will be "safer".


Also, do people really drive golf carts on them? Because that sounds horrendously stupid.

 

[Synobun]

Put one of these bad boys in Canada and it'll be used as a snowmobile path.

 

[Mouthwash]

And maybe because there aren't a lot golf carts that work in bad weather.

So design a golf cart-like vehicle that can. It doesn't seem that difficult.

Because people who live there by and large don't want their suburbs properly designed. What they want is of cul-de-sacs because they think they will be quieter, traffic will be slower, and the neighbourhood will be "safer".

That's the exact effect that the golf-cart trails have. Fewer people need to drive their cars regularly.

Also, do people really drive golf carts on them? Because that sounds horrendously stupid.

Why? It seems to work incredibly well.

 

[Borachio]

Why don't more people cycle?

 

[Kyriakos]

This is a far better plan:

La Plata land was designed in a sim city game.

 

[Mouthwash]

Why don't more people cycle?

It's harder physically and mentally than golf cart driving.

 

[Borachio]

Isn't that a good thing?

Except for the elderly and the disabled, of course.

 

[warpus]

This isn't way more common because other posters have the decency to include a summary of what the hell they're talking about in the OP.

 

[Borachio]

It's just about dedicated cycle tracks. Or in this case dedicated golf-cart tracks - apparently people in Peachtree can't manage to pedal.

At least, that's my understanding of the topic.

It's potentially interesting: how far transport links can be duplicated for different types of users.

Or how I got out of my car and went for a walk. That sort of thing.

 

[Antilogic]

Because urban planning is horribly complicated and political. Every zoning system is a compromise in that they have terrible, bad things about them but the alternatives are worse.

And maybe because there aren't a lot golf carts that work in bad weather.

I think it comes down to this. To implement the system in the link, communities would have to reallocate a lot of land for the side paths and that's difficult to get passed.

 

[Silurian]

It's harder physically and mentally than golf cart driving.

Every hour you cycle you extend your life by an hour.

 

[Kyriakos]

Every hour you cycle you extend your life by an hour.

Maybe some do it so as to spend current less good time to buy that tasty future time

 

[Borachio]

So if you cycle all the time, you're immortal?

 

[Kyriakos]

So if you cycle all the time, you're immortal?

Yes, but might also be a lab rat

(which is not utterly impossible, i suppose).

 

[History_Buff]

That's the exact effect that the golf-cart trails have. Fewer people need to drive their cars regularly.

Well I suppose that's true enough. Though I'm sure property developers hate it, because you can't sell that land to people.

Why? It seems to work incredibly well.

Because golf carts are an awful method of transportation. Now I don't know whether the ones here are electric- or fossil-fueled, but they're tremendously inefficient vehicles, and assuming they're fossil fueled, are likely worse for the environment than just driving your car places.

What you should be doing is designing short paths, and having people cycle or walk to the places reached by golf carts.

 

[Silurian]

So if you cycle all the time, you're immortal?

I don't think so you would fall off when you got sleepy.

BBC R4 More or Less program

Listen from 20 mins


http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03b2zbk

 

[Borachio]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/gambia/10523687/Boris-bike-spotted-in-Gambia.html

What did someone say? If you can ride a bike to Gambia you should be entitled to keep it?

Still, I do listen to More or Less regularly - more or less.