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From many cities I have visited and some I have lived one of the major problems are sports stadium and related are located within dense cities. When you need t

From many cities I have visited and some I have lived one of the major problems are sports stadium and related are located within dense cities. When you need to shuffle in 10.000 to 100.000 cars (at worse, none of these have enough parking spaces for it) you need parking spaces. Moving these venues outside of the cites is a good solution. It does not require forced behavioural modifications. Then the city can arrange busses to and from the stadium for those that need it. Or a high speed dedicated train. Any other establishment with a huge number of visitor should be moved out as well. Huge hospitals are also entities that take up a huge amount of space and can have a lot of parking. These should be moved outside the city to lower density areas. The space these things take up, and their huge parking lots can then be converted into parks and green lungs within the city. Greed real estate developers who wish to increase density for big profit should be barred from any activity. The density is already far too high. It is a win win situation all the way around.

slifin 4y ago
All that does is create more car dependent infrastructure No one will walk anywhere if you keep artificially spacing everything out Watch videos from not just bikes and strong towns there are plenty of solutions That don't amount to build more expensive tarmac that has to be replaced every 25 years
AlecSchueler 4y ago
You can also build solutions with public transport hubs. The Netherlands can have large stadiums and venues without giving their cities to cars. Look at the Zandvoort grand prix. The media was amazed that the whole (small, historic) town was cleared of the almost 200,000 attendees about an hour after the event. Compare to the Circuit of Americas in Austin which had people still stuck in the carpark several hours after the race ended, still in a queue to get out to join the traffic jam on the road. Building roads and carparks to fight your traffic problems only creates more traffic that will become a problem later. It's "just one more lane" type of thinking.

slifin 4y ago

All that does is create more car dependent infrastructure No one will walk anywhere if you keep artificially spacing everything out Watch videos from not just bikes and strong towns there are plenty of solutions That don't amount to build more expensive tarmac that has to be replaced every 25 years

AlecSchueler 4y ago

You can also build solutions with public transport hubs. The Netherlands can have large stadiums and venues without giving their cities to cars. Look at the Zandvoort grand prix. The media was amazed that the whole (small, historic) town was cleared of the almost 200,000 attendees about an hour after the event. Compare to the Circuit of Americas in Austin which had people still stuck in the carpark several hours after the race ended, still in a queue to get out to join the traffic jam on the road. Building roads and carparks to fight your traffic problems only creates more traffic that will become a problem later. It's "just one more lane" type of thinking.