There’s nothing wrong with bike lanes. Bike lanes are great. But bike lanes are the civic equivalent of what might be called “best practices” in the corporate world. They are things every well-functioning city is now expected to have. They don’t, however, generate differential value or make a city any more competitive in the market. Just as you can’t build a successful company on simply a collection of best practices, it’s hard to build a successful city just on these things. You need them, but they aren’t enough. They are the new urban ante -- just table stakes. Im an urban planning nerd.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 14:51:07 +0000