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I'm afraid that you are comparing pears and oranges. If you want to be fair, compare American cities with European cities. In Barcelona or the center of Copenh

by 6t6t6t6 10y ago

I'm afraid that you are comparing pears and oranges. If you want to be fair, compare American cities with European cities. In Barcelona or the center of Copenhagen, there are not free parking spaces. And I can assure you that there are not the traffic issues that you are mentioning in your comment... It's quite on the contrary, actually.

sfifs 10y ago
Well if you want to compare that way to the cities mentioned in the list, the only appropriate comparisons in Europe are London and Paris which definitely have parking, traffic and pollution issues (or had till they started banning vehicles in the center of the cities). Paris even considered banning diesel altogether contrary to the rest of Europe. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_agglomerations_by_population https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_agglomerations_by_po... Barcelona and Copenhagen arr about an order of magnitude smaller and likely don't even make it into the top 100 cities. In India in casual conversations we would call places with such populations "small towns" :-)
- CalRobert 10y ago
  Parking and traffic issues aren't issues if you're not driving, and most people in those places aren't. I mean, flying a helicopter around the city sounds like great fun but that doesn't mean everyone else should be forced to build places for me to store said helicopter.
  - 7Z7 10y ago
    I have to disagree here. I spent some time in Dhaka recently and they have some of the worst traffic problems on the planet, through a combination of incredible population density, lack-of-infrastructure, and partisan-political strong-arming. Everyone suffers because of it, whether they are actively utilising the roads or not - because the people who are using the roads are their customers/staff/suppliers/whatever. If half of my staff can't get to work on time, my business suffers. If my customers can't get to me, or don't feel the time investment is worth it (I've done 3km in 3 hours in Dhaka), my business suffers. Losses from Dhaka's traffic nightmare: http://print.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/old/more.php?news_id=95715&date=2012-01-25 http://print.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/old/more.php?news_id... https://newrepublic.com/article/118416/what-dhaka-bangladesh-traffic-capital-world-can-teach-us https://newrepublic.com/article/118416/what-dhaka-bangladesh...
- TulliusCicero 10y ago
  > Barcelona and Copenhagen arr about an order of magnitude smaller and likely don't even make it into the top 100 cities. Barcelona makes it into spot #92, actually. It's really not that small, the metro area is a bit over 5 million people. > Barcelona and Copenhagen arr about an order of magnitude smaller and likely don't even make it into the top 100 cities. Barcelona is not an order of magnitude smaller than any US city, unless you can think of a city in the states with a metro pop of 50 million.

by 6t6t6t6 10y ago

sfifs 10y ago

Well if you want to compare that way to the cities mentioned in the list, the only appropriate comparisons in Europe are London and Paris which definitely have parking, traffic and pollution issues (or had till they started banning vehicles in the center of the cities). Paris even considered banning diesel altogether contrary to the rest of Europe. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_agglomerations_by_population https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_agglomerations_by_po... Barcelona and Copenhagen arr about an order of magnitude smaller and likely don't even make it into the top 100 cities. In India in casual conversations we would call places with such populations "small towns" :-)

CalRobert 10y ago
Parking and traffic issues aren't issues if you're not driving, and most people in those places aren't. I mean, flying a helicopter around the city sounds like great fun but that doesn't mean everyone else should be forced to build places for me to store said helicopter.
- 7Z7 10y ago
  I have to disagree here. I spent some time in Dhaka recently and they have some of the worst traffic problems on the planet, through a combination of incredible population density, lack-of-infrastructure, and partisan-political strong-arming. Everyone suffers because of it, whether they are actively utilising the roads or not - because the people who are using the roads are their customers/staff/suppliers/whatever. If half of my staff can't get to work on time, my business suffers. If my customers can't get to me, or don't feel the time investment is worth it (I've done 3km in 3 hours in Dhaka), my business suffers. Losses from Dhaka's traffic nightmare: http://print.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/old/more.php?news_id=95715&date=2012-01-25 http://print.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/old/more.php?news_id... https://newrepublic.com/article/118416/what-dhaka-bangladesh-traffic-capital-world-can-teach-us https://newrepublic.com/article/118416/what-dhaka-bangladesh...
TulliusCicero 10y ago
> Barcelona and Copenhagen arr about an order of magnitude smaller and likely don't even make it into the top 100 cities. Barcelona makes it into spot #92, actually. It's really not that small, the metro area is a bit over 5 million people. > Barcelona and Copenhagen arr about an order of magnitude smaller and likely don't even make it into the top 100 cities. Barcelona is not an order of magnitude smaller than any US city, unless you can think of a city in the states with a metro pop of 50 million.