Ugh just look at all the ruined businesses! Nobody is there anymore! All the commerce is lost, and it became a dead zone in the city!
What car brained people actually believe when they see this happen.
A cyclist died further down that same street a few days ago, run over by a truck.
Paris is doing a lot to improve its infrastructure, but there's still plenty more to be done.
What I love is that if you’d told me the after picture was actually a restoration, I’d’ve bought it.
They did a superb job of giving it the ambience of a traditional promenade.
They wanna basically ban cars in the city i work in.
Which means driving there would be difficult..
But then there was an outrage among both store owners and commuters, and some parts where scrapped
No visitors to the city would mean fewer customers
Public transit
Can't have that. Got to have subsidies for the billionaires and mega 500 corporations.
What country is this, America?
It is not that easy all the time.
If you live out of the city, and the city blocks cars, you need a way to get to the city and a way to get around in the city. While local counsels can decide on city wide public transport, wider networks are necessary to reach outside of city limits. Thus we are talking about either an impressive public transport system outside the city as well (trains+bus), or an integration between cars and local transport (bus/metro). Trains take longer and are more expensive to build and maintain.
I am all for blocking cars away from cities, but it doesn’t always work super well, and if it doesn’t shop owners will be against it.
On the other hand, we are talking about Paris, that has both a wide public transport system and a reasonable integration of cars in this system. So, block away, really.
Large parking lots at large bus/train stations seems to work pretty well.
Being scared of change and using that fear to squash change is counterproductive. Closing streets to traffic creates more pedestrian traffic. You know who buys things right? People. Cars don't have autonomy to make purchases.
I hate really car-centric areas, it makes it so much harder to get to places I want to go to. Sometimes I'll go somewhere that costs more outside the city just to avoid trying to find parking in the city. If they just had me park outside the city and hop on a simple transit system to where I had to go then I'd be in the city a lot more often.
I walk my dogs through my neighborhood where the two lane speed limit is 30 mph. Street traffic is so loud at 30 mph that you cannot have a conversation with a friend with frequent traffic. Fuck cars! I don't want to have headphones jammed into my ears to noise cancel traffic. I want to hear the birds and neighborhood dogs, and the sound of the wind on the trees. Fuck cars!
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