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Conveniently ignoring the fact that roads have terrible capacity as a transport system and therefore many many many miles of terribly expensive road only exist

Conveniently ignoring the fact that roads have terrible capacity as a transport system and therefore many many many miles of terribly expensive road only exist to accommodate the space taken up by a comparatively small number of vehicles, with semi-trucks and other heavy vehicles often a minority. Count the heavy vehicles: https://twitter.com/urbanthoughts11/status/1191295205187686400 https://twitter.com/urbanthoughts11/status/11912952051876864... Don't get me wrong, the tax system is setup as a massive subsidy to trucking on roads that should be eliminated so this stuff can move onto trains where it belongs for everything but the last mile, but a big part of the cost is also just the space and area consumed by it all.

prmoustache 4y ago
Imho individual cars should be banned except maybe for people with disabilities. They simply make people hateful, angry at everyone and generally unhappy. And an awful lot of space is wasted for them to stay parked most of the time. Between 15 to 50% of the existing roads should be dedicated to non motorized use (depending on the geography, moutains can pose some challenges at times), the rest to a dense network of autonomous buses and last miles autonomous delivery trucks. Long range goods transport should be allowed only on railways, we could remove space used by multilane highways to reallocate them to rail.
- causi 4y ago
  Imho individual cars should be banned except maybe for people with disabilities. Append "in any area with a population density over 5,000 per square mile" and I'd agree with you.
  - supertrope 4y ago
    That seems to be the point of road diets. Removing free and easy parking on public right of ways, 25 MPH speed limit, narrow lanes, adding prominent pedestrian crossings. All that combined has the dual effect of making cities livable when dismounted and discouraging automobile through traffic.
- bluecalm 4y ago
  People with disabilities would be much happier if no one can drive in cities. Running a mobility scooter, a wheelchair or an electric wheelchair would be so much easier. Cars are especially bad for people with disabilities and not only because many of them can't drive at all.

prmoustache 4y ago

Imho individual cars should be banned except maybe for people with disabilities. They simply make people hateful, angry at everyone and generally unhappy. And an awful lot of space is wasted for them to stay parked most of the time. Between 15 to 50% of the existing roads should be dedicated to non motorized use (depending on the geography, moutains can pose some challenges at times), the rest to a dense network of autonomous buses and last miles autonomous delivery trucks. Long range goods transport should be allowed only on railways, we could remove space used by multilane highways to reallocate them to rail.

causi 4y ago
Imho individual cars should be banned except maybe for people with disabilities. Append "in any area with a population density over 5,000 per square mile" and I'd agree with you.
- supertrope 4y ago
  That seems to be the point of road diets. Removing free and easy parking on public right of ways, 25 MPH speed limit, narrow lanes, adding prominent pedestrian crossings. All that combined has the dual effect of making cities livable when dismounted and discouraging automobile through traffic.
bluecalm 4y ago
People with disabilities would be much happier if no one can drive in cities. Running a mobility scooter, a wheelchair or an electric wheelchair would be so much easier. Cars are especially bad for people with disabilities and not only because many of them can't drive at all.