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> The city needs to actively make it harder to use cars with bus lanes, road diets, removing parking, etc. After thinking about this a moment, you might realiz
by downerending 7y ago
> The city needs to actively make it harder to use cars with bus lanes, road diets, removing parking, etc.
After thinking about this a moment, you might realize that this mostly just makes life harder and more miserable for the poor, disabled, etc. Most people don't have a plausible option to change their mode of transportation--they just have to suffer.
Beyond that, these "improvements" often don't even benefit their intended targets. I currently live in a city that has this "make it harder" smug in spades. Ironically, the resulting improvements have made it a scarier place to walk and bicycle, due to the attention overload induced on drivers.
As the saying goes: God save us from people that only mean well...
- mayneack 7y agoIt's obviously hard to tell by looking in windows, but there's plenty of poor and/or disabled people riding the bus and already dealing with the problems you think removing cars would give them.
- downerending 7y agoIndeed. But "make it harder" isn't about them (it won't change their behavior). It's rather about the poor and disabled for whom public transportation isn't their best option. It's a message from the elite telling them that their suffering doesn't count.