Pop-Up Cycleways

Harris, Mike S.; McCue, Peter A.

doi:10.1080/01944363.2022.2061578

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Towards sustainable urban transport—Political agenda formation and policy windows in Helsinki, Oslo, and Stockholm

Karjalainen

2024

Env Pol Gov

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This paper examines the development of urban transport political agendas in three Nordic capital cities, Helsinki, Oslo, and Stockholm, that strive towards urban sustainability. Utilising the Multiple Streams framework as a basis for analysis, an overview of local problems, policy solutions, and politics that have characterised transport systems and the related policy development processes over time is constructed. The attention is then drawn towards the points in time where the streams connect, and policy windows occur, to detect formative changes and their enablers towards sustainability. The data consists of 18 semi‐structured expert interviews, conducted amongst municipal policymakers and planners. The results reveal several policy windows that have transformed the local transport systems towards sustainability and an increasingly people‐oriented approach. The relevance of global climate change awareness, international planning trends for liveability and cycling, public pressure, individual political decisions, and establishment of modal hierarchy is evident across the case cities, while car traffic regulation is politically challenging and addressed through very different means at very different times. The findings of this paper outline diverse ways for advancing sustainability in local policy development but also detect methods for politically halting the process.

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Towards sustainable urban transport—Political agenda formation and policy windows in Helsinki, Oslo, and Stockholm

Karjalainen

2024

Env Pol Gov

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Pop-Up Bike Lanes and Temporary Shared Spaces in Vienna During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Leth

2023

The Urban Book Series

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Similar to many cities, Vienna (Austria) implemented measures to provide more space for pedestrians and cyclists during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this chapter, the implementation process of the temporary shared spaces and “pop-up” bike lanes is described, and the evaluation results regarding their usage as well as the political decisions of their early removal are presented. With video recordings and manual counting, we found that pop-up bike lanes were well adopted by cyclists, but temporary shared spaces have largely failed to attract pedestrians. The possible reasons are discussed as well as the criteria for better implementation of temporary walking and cycling infrastructure in the future. Drawing on the multiple streams theory, we link the decision of suspending all temporary infrastructures to the political situation at the time with pop-up bike lanes as a highly controversial issue before the local elections in October 2020 and a change of government afterward. We conclude that this presents a lost opportunity to permanently redistribute road space for active mobility, but future initiatives could learn from the Vienna case by thinking more strategically about political aspects.

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Weight centrism in research on Children's active transport to school

Kent

2023

Journal of Transport & Health

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Pop-Up Cycleways

Cited by 13 publications

References 36 publications

Towards sustainable urban transport—Political agenda formation and policy windows in Helsinki, Oslo, and Stockholm

Towards sustainable urban transport—Political agenda formation and policy windows in Helsinki, Oslo, and Stockholm

Pop-Up Bike Lanes and Temporary Shared Spaces in Vienna During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Weight centrism in research on Children's active transport to school

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