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+1 Many people commute by train from the "suburbs" or the smaller cities sprinkled around the larger cities, partly because it's convenient, partly because tra
by dom0 9y ago
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Many people commute by train from the "suburbs" or the smaller cities sprinkled around the larger cities, partly because it's convenient, partly because traffic is really bad in major cities.
- toyg 9y ago> partly because traffic is really bad in major cities. This is particularly relevant in the European context, where most cities were not built for cars and now cannot be significantly altered.
- pgeorgi 9y ago> now cannot be significantly altered And why should we? (as in: I consider car-friendly cities a bug, not a feature)
- wutbrodo 9y agoSure, no one's suggesting they _should_ be altered, but evidence from the entire world suggests that most people (partly in a political context) are too dumb to understand the concept of the damage done by a car-friendly/human-unfriendly city design. So external barriers like the one described here tend to be the only defense.
- lispm 9y agoWell Germany had the unfortunate advantage of having many of their cities complete destroyed. I live in Hamburg, which was flattened by bombs. After the war the cities were rebuild - for cars..