When at Sustrans in the mid 1980's we had an excellent booklet from the 
German Government basically highlighting the changes that could and were 
being made in urban traffic.

It had some wonderful illustrations which were adapted for a number of 
Sustrans reports - the Mr A who drives directly to work vs Mr B who 
cycles with his child to school, nips in the the shop for a paper and 
catches the train, where he reads the paper, taking roughly the same 
time but being so much more productive with it.  Or the dynamic envelope 
reduction with a 20 Kph speed reduction, that allows you to make traffic 
lanes narrower and fit in an extra lane - for bikes of course.

I was reminded of it by this Streetfilms blog showing the opportunity 
some of us will have to go out and get photos of #snecking on the 
streets when there is a fall of snow.  Basically it is taking pictures 
of the piles of snow pushed aside, or just not cleared by the passage of 
motor vehicles, which show just how little road space is actually needed 
for moving traffic, and where footways can be extended to promote slower 
cornering speeds, and space can be found for cycle lanes etc.  From my 
own reckoning, in many urban areas less than 50% of the road surfacing 
is actually needed for moving traffic, the rest is filled up with parked 
vehicles which sit idle for around 95% of the time.

In the UK by statute the local government areas are only obliged to 
provide and repair roads for the movement of traffic, and here at a 
stroke is the opportunity to slash the cost of road repairs, by only 
repairing the bits used for moving traffic. Better still, as the land on 
which the road sits usually belongs to the title of the frontaging 
property, if it is no longer required for the purpose of being a road it 
can be stopped up and returned to the owner of the land on which the 
road sits.  Imagine the benefit of a bigger front garden, or perhaps a 
small plot of greenery, where once the view was someone else's car, or 
you might turn a small profit from actually charging for parking on your 
land (one of the reasons that UK local councils are prohibited from 
making money from parking charges, is that in many cases they don't own 
the land under the road)

So closing again with that request - an e-copy of Stadtvehrkehr im Wandlung

Dave Holladay