Why Build Them?

The Raisons d’être regarding “Spaces for People” are found within the mission statements of thousands of non-profit organizations, the stated goals of hundreds of government agencies and the official policies of nations around the globe.

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  • Improve Quality-of-Life
    I believe “Spaces for People” networks will significantly improve the quality-of-life for many millions of people.

    They will do this by changing communities’ mobility structure and by ‘enabling and encouraging’ positive changes in daily activities.
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  • Provide an Alternative Transportation System
    Everyone likes to have options; we all have preferences and want to choose what is best.
    Especially within the USA, people often do not have a viable choice – there is no alternative for personal mobility. Many feel they must jump into their car to go to the store, to get to work or even to go to the gym. “Spaces for People”, as proposed here, provides an alternative transportation system. Within the protected travelways you can safely pedal a bike, ride an electric bike or scooter or pleasantly walk regardless of the hour or the weather.
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  • Reduce Traffic Congestion
    Combat traffic congestion and its unimaginably high cost – wasted time, stress and anxiety and frustration, fuel and vehicle depreciation costs, public highway repair and construction costs (which further contribute to the congestion).
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  • Provide An Extensive Recreational Facility
    Provide a community-wide Recreational Facility that is safe, usable 24 hrs per day, every day, in all weather conditions, free and easily accessible from any point in the community.
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  • Increase Real Estate Values
    “55% of prospective homebuyers want a home with a mix of single-family and other higher density housing, sidewalks, shops, schools, and public transit within walking distance.” 2004 National Community Preference Survey
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  • Reduce Pedestrian Deaths and Injuries
    People have the right and the desire for a safe, tranquil environment within their community.
    We should be free to move about our neighborhood without fear of being injured.
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  • Enable and Encourage a Healthier Lifestyle
    Childhood obesity, an ominous increase in the number of overweight adults and a widespread lack of regular aerobic exercise have reached epidemic proportions, according to many medical experts, in the USA and other societies. Our children are taught, by example, that jumping into a car for every trip to school or meeting with friends is the preferred way. Sedentary lifestyles have become the norm. Physical education programs in schools have waned. Children ride schoolbuses to school instead of a bike, which would make them trim and fit instead of fat.

    The “Spaces for People” would enable and encourage many people to change their lifestyles - to fight their addiction to driving a car for every outing, get more exercise and improve their health.
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  • Improve Social And Cultural Interaction
    “Quality environments that encourage walking, cycling and the use of public transport help social and cultural interaction. This creates vibrant healthy communities and encourages social responsibility through increased human contact.” UITP Sustainable mobility report
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  • Generate Business Opportunities and Create Jobs
    Advertising, solar cells, hydrogen distribution, concealed utility lines, package delivery system, concessions, links to commercial properties, bike tourist facilities along cross-country routes.
    required bikes and other vehicles, enable people to be more mobile, enable people to get to jobs and school,
    Provide Opportunity through mobility – Particularly in 3rd world countries give women the ability to travel to find work and opportunity.
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  • Enable and Encourage Reallocation of Economic Resources
    By providing drivers with a viable alternative - such as “Spaces for People” - public sentiment may begin to favor diversion of public funding away from new road construction and more parking lots and into ‘people friendly’ projects.

    The number of cars per capita would be stabilized or reduced. Enabling and encouraging urban dwellers to use an occasionally rented car instead of owning one; and affluent suburban families to maintain one car instead of two or three.

    Improve the desirability of the city: Cities with poor public transport and poor mobility solutions are less attractive for living and working; they suffer economically. The “Spaces for People” add a new, more desirable mobility solution.
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  • Reduce Usage of Fossil Fuels
    Reduce the consumption of fossil fuel. Save money on gas and diesel fuel.
    Reduce greenhouse gas emissions, global warming, air pollution and noise pollution;
    And, make a contribution to reducing your country’s dependency of foreign oil and the transfer of wealth to oil producing countries.
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  • Reduce Healthcare Costs
    There is well over $100 billion annually spent, in the USA alone, directly related to obesity, lack of regular aerobic exercise and a scarcity of popular, accessible, stress relieving daily physical activity. By promoting aerobic cardio-vascular exercise, promoting physical activity (burning calories thereby reducing obesity, reducing stress), reducing pedestrian deaths and injuries and by reducing air pollution (WHO estimates 700,000 deaths could be prevented by eliminating it).
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  • Provide an Emergency Transportation System
    Provide an Emergency Transportation System that is separate from traditional streets, functions independently from the power grid, is unaffected by flood or heavy snows, does not require ‘drivers’ thereby precluding labor strikes, is immune from roadway blockages due to disabled vehicles, does not depend on pumping gasoline nor on traffic signals.
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  • Encourage Traffic Calming Regulations. Increase Cities’ Revenues.
    Legislation to combat traffic congestion and its urban blight has often been proposed, but such laws have been implemented in only a few cities. Legislation, in the form of congestion taxes, increased tolls, increased parking fees and more stringent enforcement of traffic laws, discourages driving private cars into the cities. By providing drivers with a viable alternative - such as “Spaces for People” - public sentiment and arguments against such center city traffic reduction and ‘traffic calming’ measures would be reduced.
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  • Reduce Impact on Wildlife and Natural Resources
    By employing non-intrusive construction, surface travelways can be provided that have minimal impact on wildlife, the environment and natural resources.
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