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That's a very narrow way to read my comment. Cities are rebuilt all the time. My city now invest heavily into bike lanes reducing the number of car lanes from

• jacquesm 7y ago
  Of course there is no reason to leave things as they are. But any city older than 120 years - and that's the bulk of them near where I live - will have had horses and carriages as the bulk carriers of their time. Except for those parts where boats were used, but that requires some pretty rare conditions (Venice, Amsterdam, Bruges). Getting rid of cars is a good thing, let's hope we get rid of them in inner cities before electrics take over and rob us of that chance. The pollution caused by cars is one of the main drivers of getting rid of them, if that reason is dealt with then it will be much harder to marshal the forces required to see this through.