The surprising availability of cycling and walking infrastructure through COVID-19

Dunning, Richard; Nurse, Alexander

doi:10.3828/tpr.2020.35

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“…Mobility provision is pivotal for the COVID-19 induced adjustment that societies had to make [8]. This adjustment, which was defined by transport restrictions, and the fear of the virus itself, resulted in a social and economic crisis, which has changed people's life patterns and daily routines all over the world [26][27][28].…”

Section: The Era Of Covid-19: Changes and Perspectives For Urban Mobilitymentioning

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Cycling in the Era of COVID-19: Lessons Learnt and Best Practice Policy Recommendations for a More Bike-Centric Future

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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected our cities in monumental ways with no sector likely being more severely impacted than transport. Lockdowns, physical spacing, transport restrictions and stay-at-home guidelines have transformed personal mobility and highlighted the mistakes of an unbalanced pro-car culture that defined a century of urban planning. One immediate effect of the virus in relation to travel demand and supply was the emergence of active travel modes because of their unique ability to provide a socially distanced way of transport. Cycling is one of the modes that has enjoyed significant attention. Numerous cities have reallocated street and public space to cyclists and introduced pro-bike interventions like pop-up cycle lanes, e-bike subsidies, free bike-share use and traffic calming measures. This newly found outbreak-induced momentum creates an opportunity to establish a new ethos that allows the promotion of potentially permanent strategies that may help cycling to be (re-)established as a robust, mainstream and resilient travel mode for inner city trips and not as a second-class alternative operating under the automobile’s giant shadow. This paper provides a state-of-the-art description of the anti-COVID cycling-friendly initiatives that have been introduced globally, the successes and failures of these initiatives, the lessons learnt that can help us redefine the bicycle’s role in local societies today and a best cycling practice policy guide for planning a more bike-centric future.

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Section: The Era Of Covid-19: Changes and Perspectives For Urban Mobilitymentioning

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Cycling in the Era of COVID-19: Lessons Learnt and Best Practice Policy Recommendations for a More Bike-Centric Future

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“… Beck and Hensher, 2020 , Dunning and Nurse, 2021 , Hoang-Tung et al, 2017 , Li et al, 2021 , Stats, 2020 , Waka Kotahi and Agency, 2020 , Wang and Thiel, 2014 .…”

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Commuting before and after COVID-19

Thomas

Charlton

Lewis

et al. 2021

Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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Major life events like COVID-19 have the potential to change how people think about and use transport systems. The COVID-19 pandemic has created an extended period of disruption in peoples’ lives and could result in long-term changes towards travel attitudes, and use of transport services. There has previously been little research available on changes towards travel attitudes and use of domestic travel as a result of pandemics. To investigate the changes in attitudes to travel resulting from COVID-19 we distributed a survey to 787 respondents in Australia and New Zealand asking about car use, car sharing, public transport, and air travel before, during, and after COVID-19 travel restrictions. The results showed attitudes towards travel were negatively affected, particularly attitudes towards public transport and international air travel. Further, although respondents indicated some recovery in attitudes when asked to consider when travel restrictions were removed, they did not recover to the levels of positivity seen pre-COVID. There were slight differences between the two countries in their post-COVID attitudes, possibly due to their different experience of travel restriction. Both countries, however, may be useful as a preview for the rest of the world given the early cessation of the COVID-19 pandemic at the time of the survey.

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“…This finding is shown in how informants could not refer to any communication provided by the municipality regarding safe or recommended ways of using public space, although the municipality is responsible for issues related to local urban space. As in many other cities globally, the municipality may have enhanced the physical infrastructure for walking through temporary pedestrian walkways (Dunning and Nurse 2020) or provided communication campaigns on alternative and quiet walking routes for staying safe while staying active in the city. This finding suggests a centralisation of communication, which is a possible disqualifying aspect of a healthy communicative city (Drucker and Gumpert 2016).…”

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“…Examples of proactive shaping of current material affordances by a municipality include temporary planning interventions including repurposing car parking and car lanes for cycling and walking or providing information and encouragement for safe pandemic walking; such proactive shaping was absent in this study. Helsinki's passive policy contrasts with many other cities around the world from Paris to Melbourne, and Budapest to Rome, where quick responses to enhance the environment's material affordances included new or improved walking and cycling infrastructure (Dunning and Nurse 2020).…”

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Walking as urban communication: affordances and agency in public space in a semi-lockdown city

Niitamo

2021

Cities & Health

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While unlimited pedestrian mobility is usually considered a key characteristic of open democracies and healthy urban communication, a global pandemic has re-organised how public space can be used. By analysing places of interaction, infrastructure, and politics and civil society, this article examines walking in the pandemic city as a form of urban communication. The article explores meanings that young adults give to walking in semi-lockdown Helsinki, Finland by employing a qualitative multi-method approach. The findings underline participants' emotional and social motivations for walking, highlighting the need to plan for local places of connection. The article argues that an individual's chance to shape affordances of walking relies on their own walking practices and personal resources instead of understanding walking as a point of planning intervention.

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The surprising availability of cycling and walking infrastructure through COVID-19

Cited by 27 publications

References 7 publications

Cycling in the Era of COVID-19: Lessons Learnt and Best Practice Policy Recommendations for a More Bike-Centric Future

Cycling in the Era of COVID-19: Lessons Learnt and Best Practice Policy Recommendations for a More Bike-Centric Future

Commuting before and after COVID-19

Walking as urban communication: affordances and agency in public space in a semi-lockdown city

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