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The first step is to eliminate cars as a primary mode of transportation.

• S201 4y ago
  And replace them with what? Because if you're not in or at least near a city you'll be stranded without a car.
  • timeon 4y ago
    We need to change planning.
    • illiarian 4y ago
      That is the same level of advice as "humans need to learn how to fly". You not only have to change planning, you also need to change all the existing cities to accomodate that planning
      • carapace 4y ago
        Most cities predate the invention of the automobile.
        • illiarian 4y ago
          The cores of the cities, yes. And those cores are tiny. There are a few exceptions like London (7 million in the 19th century, 9 million now), but most cities are not London.
      • agentultra 4y ago
        And we can do that if the will to do it was there. I suspect those that benefit the most from the subsidies that support their life styles will have the most to complain about.
        • illiarian 4y ago
          > those that benefit the most from the subsidies that support their life styles will have the most to complain about. What
          • agentultra 4y ago
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI
            • illiarian 4y ago
              When you put it that way, yes. On the other hand, I, too, want to live in a house with a green space of my own, and would complain loudly if I was forced to change
      • mikrotikker 4y ago
        Sounds like that'll take a lot of concrete being moved by machinery.
• tiedieconderoga 4y ago
  >>>>>The first step is to eliminate cars as a primary mode of transportation. >>>>The first step is to make it possible to live without a car. >>>The first step is to set up separated bike lanes and improved electrified bus/rail routes. >>The first step is to convince the legislature to shift infrastructure funding away from building new roads. >The first step is to elect the right candidates, build a base of support, and draft an amendment which can get through the next budget showdown. And so on...although it's more of a sprawling tree than a descending list.
  • moffkalast 4y ago
    > elect the right candidates That part's made even more difficult by there typically not being any right candidates at all.
• wilg 4y ago
  Probably a lot easier (and therefore faster and therefore a better strategy) to not do this, and instead electrify everything.