Comment by crackercrews
4 days ago
> designed with cars in mind, not human beings
This is a bad faith framing. The cars are driven by humans. Or in the case of autonomous driving, are driving humans around.
I've come up to plenty of lights that had the pedestrian signal lit even though there were no pedestrians. This happens during the day and at night, and is frustrating. Just happened the other day when I was driving around midnight. Not a pedestrian in sight!
If the designers were truly considering the well-being of the occupants of the vehicles then they would be designing cities to minimize the time spent in vehicles; which means more than saving a few seconds at a stop light, it means getting them out of their cars entirely.
That might fly in temperate parts of California, but it sure doesn't work in places with less pedestrian-friendly weather.
There are plenty of examples of walkable neighbourhoods in places with cold and/or wet weather.
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Minneapolis, Chicago, a lot of less temperate cities have protected walking tunnels, either underground or protected by buildings.
It is working great in New York City: traffic is down 11-60% with just a $9 fee.
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Forcing people into a 19th century standard of living is not good for their well being.
"Walking" is not some outdated concept. Lordy.
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