Visioning transport futures through windows of opportunity: changing streets and human-scaled networks

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic helped reveal much-needed insights about how people view cities and interact with public space City leaders, planners and even the public realized how much space in streets is devoted to moving automobiles at the expense of walking and bicycling Responses to the pandemic, furthermore, helped people become aware of how the character of streets can change quickly Here, King and Krizek argue that there is an urgency to act now, being on the brink of a once-in-a-century occurrence where street use is changing potentially at the same time as new vehicle types They view the condition of the pandemic as one capable of spurring rapid change to fix long-standing problems with urban transport