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reduces the standard of the environment"
"Every extra vehicle accessibility of either the pedestrian or vehicular population has to be re- duced. Or (the thought is incon- ceivable) the present chaotic situation is allowed to continue and to worsen. This situation in the old developed urban area
cannot respond to the palliatives, which are being tried, and strong action is needed to put into effect the principle expounded. Part of the answer in these areas is pro- bably in a denial of all access to vehicles, except those essential to the fire. ambulance and garbage collec- tion services.
In the new developing areas, it must be recognized, that the amount of traffic that may be given access to the area is controlled by the amount
of money that is available for the public works necessary and the plan- carried out that the set ning so standard of environment can be achieved and maintained.
As an example of this thinking let us take an existing housing estate. When originally designed, a standard of environment was established, de- pendent on many things, but in the present context on a certain amount of traffic movement and parking. As elsewhere the number of car-owning tenants is increasing. Every extra vehicle permitted to enter the arca reduces the standard of the environ- ment by so much, and must be prevented, not only for the sake of the car-owners, but also of the non-
and-never-will-be-car-owners.
In new developments and in stage- by-stage developments, the effect on adjacent existing development of the new vehicular and pedestrian traffic generated must be taken into account, so that when creating new environ- ments, existing ones are not made to deteriorate further.
This is not to deny the advantages of the motor vehicle. The private car is something which can be en- joyed and from which great good can be derived, but its effect on our environment must be kept in perspec- tive and when it becomes an instru- ment of destruction then its use has to be controlled for the sake of humanity.
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Far East Architect & Builder January, 1966
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