Mobility Matters Daily #134 - Doughnuts and motorway junctions
With some added British eccentricity
Good day friend.
A poorly little doggie means a shorter email than usual. If you need me, I’ll be outside while he eats grass for the rest of the day. To the news.
James
Cities embracing sharing and doughnuts
A number of places across the world are adopting the sharing economy and doughnut economics a new approach to economic development. Most recently, Amsterdam has stated that it is applying this approach to focus on outcomes for people and planet. The idea of living within set environmental bounds has been around ever since environmental determinism was a thing. Other cities across the world are adopting variances of the sharing economy, so much so that some initial analysis is being done on the appropriate governance models for its delivery.
Discussion on both of these ideas in transport has mainly been on whether specific modes are the sharing economy or not. Something picked up in this paper by Craig Standing, Susan Standing, and Sharon Bierman. But if our activities need to start being bound by planetary boundaries, there are implications for how much and how we travel, and the policies needed to support this.
Visualisation of the Day
I give you a challenge. Don’t look at the Ordnance Survey website, and don’t look at the key underneath each junction. Just guess what ones they are. I got 15 of them, including Spaghetti Junction, the Thorney Interchange, the Ray Hall Triangle, and the Eccles Interchange. I don’t know whether that’s good or extremely sad.
Source: Ordnance Survey
If you do nothing else today, do this
Read this article. Its the most British thing I have seen this year.