Things that have been said about cars before but I feel like saying them again
How the sheer size of cars makes them seem more important than they are.
I’m visiting my sister in Adelaide and riding on many quiet streets like this. Often there are also other people on bikes, like that guy up ahead. Take the parked cars out of this streetscape and it’s ‘wow, everyone cycles in Adelaide’. But with them, they dominate the image of the street, even though there’s only 4 of them and 3 of us…
Things that have been said about cars before but I feel like saying them again
Some pretty streets without street parking I've seen on this trip 😍
Though the Japanese ones are much more pleasant to walk or cycle than the French ones. Perhaps partly design - speed limits and the French street having a tiny footpath, implying that pedestrians should stay there, versus small Japanese streets often having either wide painted footpaths or no footpath - but a lot of it is just the driving culture.
Things that have been said about cars before but I feel like saying them again
@jroper It's a fascinating psychological psychovisual trick, that changes the size of public spaces …
Eddy Avenue looks so much bigger, until you add car lanes:
Things that have been said about cars before but I feel like saying them again
And it’s a shame if it continues perceptions of car dominance, because parts of Adelaide are great to cycle!
Here we are heading in to the Fringe Festival through the parklands 🥰🥰
(it’s pretty ridiculous to have to wear helmets for something you can do wearing a summer dress, carrying a handbag, and in my sister’s case, heavily pregnant. But that’s another post).