Designing cities for Micromobility with Skye Duncan, Global Designing Cities Initiative at NACTO

Oliver Bruce
Podcast
August 6, 2020

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This week Oliver interviews Skye Duncan, a fellow Kiwi who has gone on tolead the Global Designing Cities Initiative at the National Association ofCity Transportation Officials. Skye is a wealth of knowledge about howinfrastructure and space allocation decisions get made on streets aroundthe world, and how micromobility can impacts those habitats to achievetransport outcomes. It was a great conversation - they both really enjoyedthis conversation and hope you do too.Specifically they dig into:- Skye’s background and journey from New Zealand, via Columbia and workingwith Mayor Bloomberg to heading the Global Designing Cities Initiative atNACTO.- What the Global Design Guide for Cities is trying to achieve.- What micromobility/electric bikes/scooters offer to cities around theworld, and how this intersects with he growth in urban populations thatwe’re seeing.- Why the problem of parking, and parking entitlement, are such a big issue.- What micromobility operators should be thinking about when talking tocity planners and contextualising micromobility in the transport mix.- how Skye encourages advocates of new micromobility vehicles to discussthem and their infrastructure.

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