EPISODE · Jun 15, 2023 · 38 MIN
Engineering Bad Outcomes (with CityNerd)
from The Urbanist Agenda
Traffic engineers in the US and Canada have complex guidebooks and formulas for everything they do, but somehow they still build places that are dangerous, expensive, ugly, and terrible at actually moving people. Jason (Not Just Bikes) and Ray (CityNerd) discuss how all this engineering still results in bad outcomes.All Traffic Models are Wrong (Strong Towns)https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/9/7/all-traffic-models-are-wrongWSDOT VS. REALITYhttps://www.sightline.org/2011/07/13/wsdot-vs-reality/https://riskcenter.wharton.upenn.edu/climate-risk-solutions-2/its-time-to-rethink-our-roads/https://www.pps.org/article/levels-of-service-and-travel-projections-the-wrong-tools-for-planning-our-streetshttps://www.pps.org/article/levels-of-service-and-travel-projections-the-wrong-tools-for-planning-our-streetshttps://cityobservatory.org/the-limits-of-data-driven-approaches-to-planning/Directly support the production of this podcast, and listen to every episode early (and without ads!) by subscribing to Nebula: https://nebula.tv/agendaNot Just Bikes: https://youtube.com/@notjustbikesCityNerd: https://youtube.com/@citynerdSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Jason (Not Just Bikes) and Ray (CityNerd) discuss how traffic engineers use complicated models and guidebooks but still manage to build terrible streets that don't actually work.
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