Comment by panick21_
7 months ago
> not about urban planning genius or Scandinavian magic
Fewer cars IS THE MAGIC and fewer cars IS GREAT URBAN planning.
7 months ago
> not about urban planning genius or Scandinavian magic
Fewer cars IS THE MAGIC and fewer cars IS GREAT URBAN planning.
Cars are obviously the problem. All cars, small cars, large cars, gas cars, electric cars, all cars are the problem.
Yes. In the future there will be no cars and no deaths related to them. We just live in the 1800' of our time.
This is a nonsensical generalization.
This is the observation: we massively overshoot in terms of the role (space, infrastructure) we assign to cars, especially in densely populated areas.
If we can create viable alternatives to driving we can make these places much, much more enjoyable. Quieter, nicer to be around, more human scale, more convenient.
That’s all. Nowhere in there is any claim that cars aren’t immensely useful. In less densely populated people. For people with disabilities. Etc.
Why can’t we have the nice things? And yeah, the nice things do include walkable cities like we had them in 19th century. Sometimes and in some places to a very limited extent the past with some modern conveniences (like trams, modern bicycles) was better.
I don't think bicycles, trams, buses and trains existed back then in the way they do now.
I bet horse-related deaths have dropped