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I think the argument is that shops won't be able to get stock in without lots of road access for delivery trucks etc.

• dep_b 7y ago
  Living dead center in Utrecht it's actually quite easy to do so. In the mornings you can simply drive through the pedestrian zone at a walking pace as long as you have business there like unloading or going to your house. Outside of the pedestrian zone of the centre you can still drive your car, but it's just not something a lot of people do. Given the medieval street pattern it's still pretty convenient. The real hard thing is that Google & Co don't mark every street as reachable by car or truck and you also need to drive over a bus / taxi lane to get there. So people that are used to just set up Google Maps and drive will never get there as the roads are not accessible according to the map they use. Which is a huge pain in the ass anything larger than a parcel needs to be delivered to my house.
• Sharlin 7y ago
  Unfortunately, usually it’s more about the (unfounded) assumption that car users are proper money-spending shoppers and cyclists and pedestrians are unemployed hippie communists.
  • Sharlin 7y ago
    You hear this argument all the time so I’m not sure whence the downvotes. Whatever the exact phrasing, the gist of the argument is that car users are assumed to have more purchasing power and should thus be given priority.