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> What would be so different in the USA as to create a different outcome? For one the roads and sidewalks were designed quite a bit differently. Most other co
by namrog84 5y ago
> What would be so different in the USA as to create a different outcome?
For one the roads and sidewalks were designed quite a bit differently.
Most other countries are far more well designed for foot traffic, where many places in us are more well designed for vehicles.
- talideon 5y agoIf you look at Europe in the '70s and '80s, it didn't look all that different from the US: just as car-centric, but just with fewer motorways running right through the centre of towns. The difference is that in much of Europe, people gradually started to wean themselves off of cars. These cities weren't "designed for foot traffic": people took actual steps to make them more pedestrian friendly after being very, very car-centric for a long time. The US and Canada can and should do the same.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoMany European cities have pedestrian-only central squares or plazas that are hundreds of years old.
- znowcone 5y agoThat's only a tiny part of a city.
- PedroBatista 5y agoA couple decades ago there were cars in most of those plazas. Actual steps were taken to change that.
- talideon 5y agoYou assume that there wasn't a period of several decades where many of those squares and plazas didn't have roads running though them, and needed to be reclaimed from cars, much as streets in general needed to be. That assumption would be wrong.