10.6 Pedestrian Crossings:
"As such, the time spent waiting for the pedestrian phase may also need to be reduced (...) and a balance is required to ensure the needs of all modes are met." This is quite a revealing sentence. If we are serious about climate change and the impact of car traffic on our quality of life, we cannot talk about a balance. Private cars need to be deprioritised and inconvenienced. People on foot need to have priority - there is no balance to be sought here, but a voluntary move to take cars away and to make them as unpleasant to use in the city as possible, except for professionals and people with reduced mobility.