Prof. David Levinson teaches at the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney, where he leads TransportLab and the Transport Engineering group.
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Countdown
I returned to Australia from a trip to America. Despite the heat, Australia has a lot going for it, including a functioning government (it’s all a matter of degree). But there is one feature from Washington, DC worth importing, and that’s the Pedestrian Countdown Clock. These often have times in excess of 45 seconds. Yes,…
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Safety Theatre
What do the following things have in common: Bike Helmets Sharrows Marked Crosswalks Fining Pedestrians They are designed to make people feel safer than they are. The natural reaction is a misjudgment of actual risk due to risk compensation. The result is that people don’t behave safely enough, which makes it more dangerous. In contrast,…
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Green Square deserves A (pedestrian-accessible) Green Square
Let us speak not of beautiful glass boxes. Let us dream not of transit-oriented design. Instead, let us talk about the multi-jurisdictional, dysfunctional pedestrian nightmare that is today’s Green Square redevelopment, (map) . So I am walking down the West side of Wyndham Street (as I am wont to do) and want to go to…
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Umbrella Pas de Deux
When it’s raining, and everyone has their umbrella out, and you are passing someone going the opposite direction, and you are holding umbrellas at about the same height, and the footpath is narrow, your umbrellas will collide unless one party raises their umbrella, the other lowers their, or some combination of the two. What is…
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Map Monday: Isochrones and the Thirty-Minute City
Travel Time Platform is a website that lets users draw Isochrones, areas which can be reached in a given amount of time (Iso from the Greek for same, chronos for time). I have used it to draw a time radius. Here we show a 30 minute walking time from the Seymour Centre (near the WalkSydney…
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The Double-Cross: Missing Pedestrian Crossings
Every signal controlled intersection should have protected pedestrian crossings on every side of every street. Yet this is not the case in much of Sydney. T-intersections often are missing a pedestrian crossing. Not only are marked crosswalks missing, walk signals are missing too, and pedestrians are discouraged from crossing. The reason is presumably convenience for…
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