Planning traffic in Bern - not just for cars

[@karcinor]

Thanks so much for telling us about this case. Sometimes I had a bit of a Problem to see where your Argument is going. Swiss planners seem to have trouble implementing more radical solutions, like in the netherlands.

[@cityforall]

Switzerland has it's own tradition in urban planning. Sometimes it`s quite concise visually but has right principles inside. But me personally like Netherlands and France a little bit more.

[@felixtheswiss]

As all such developments are voted by the people no radical solutions have a chance. Its real democratic here in switzerland.

[@anubizz3]

@@cityforall Funny because France have higher car per capita than Swiss by a big margin and Netherlands which is tiny and flat and all its big city bunch up together in a circle smaller than the city of Sydney just barely can have less car than Swiss and that Chinese video footage that use to show car centric city have car ownership in low 0.2 instead 0.6 in that Europe country, but hey all Urbanist is allergic to Asian City no matter how successful the are on reducing car ownership, I never once heard Urbanist mention about Singapore while public transport oriented channel always mention them ...

[@GuckenKaiser]

​@@felixtheswiss I would argue 'radical' solutions are actually much more likely to get implemented in a direct democracy, especially as the Overton window shifts in their favor. You see this quite often in the referenda, where the people's vote on what could be considered a 'radical' position by the political establishment actually is seen more favourably by the general populace. See for example the Konzernverantwortungsinitiative, which was rejected by the Ständemehr, but was majority accepted by the Volksmehr. Elected representatives are unfortunately much more corruptable, and especially with car-centric urban planning, we know from where the money flows, and into whose pockets. I would expect this to be doubly true for infrastructure, as these changes have tangible differences that are immediately felt by the general populace who live and move within these places. Yes, we will not immediately transform Swiss cities into walking and bicycling utopias, but as more of these solutions get implemented, such as Zürich's 'Velovorzugsrouten' Initiative from 2020 and people see the benefit these solutions bring, so will the more aggressive and comprehensive solutions become more likely to get accepted. Amsterdam's transformation away from car-centric infrastructure in the 80s and 90s was also not immediately popular, but public opinion shifted as biking- and pedestrian-friendly measures were implemented.

[@felixtheswiss]

@@GuckenKaiser Ok but as just seen for the new Limattalbahn local NIMBYS fought tooth and nail against it. Although they benefit the most. It took 2 Votes by the state populace to overturn this blockage.

[@mdhazeldine]

Nice to see a different topic and location talked about in the urbanist space. You should do more of these kinds of videos.

[@cityforall]

I have lots of ideas for the next videos. All I need is time and a feedback from the audience. The more views channel get - the more courage to make new ones appears :)

[@mdhazeldine]

@@cityforall Keep going! There's plenty to still talk about. As someone from the UK, it gets a bit boring seeing so many urbanist videos about North America. I understand the reasons for it, but there's plenty of urban successes and failures in the UK and Europe too that are worth looking at and talking about.

[@cityforall]

@@mdhazeldine I had big hopes for mu US trams video but it wasn't as good as I supposed :)))

[@schnitzelmeister]

1:50 I kinda need that hat

[@cityforall]

That's a good idea for merch 😁

[@demyandanyluk7399]

Nifiha sobi!