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> Cars aren't worse or better, they're just different. Cars are plain worse. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co2-transport-mode https://ourworldindata.org/g
by dchnshA 3y ago
> Cars aren't worse or better, they're just different.
Cars are plain worse. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co2-transport-mode https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co2-transport-mode
> anti car bias on HN
I more worry worried about the anti smashing your fingers with a hammer bias on HN
> It's an empathy gap
It is an infrastructure spending gap.
- kortex 3y agoEven if towns had the infra money and political will (they usually don't), where's all this hypothetical infrastructure gonna go? Where I live, there's a main drag which is the ideal location for pedestrian infra, has all the shops, near the one (1) bus route we have. No sidewalks. No room to even put one in, without some massive eminent domain. Literally there are buildings in the way which would prevent any expansion.
- ajuc 3y agoI walk this road every weekend for fun. No pavements, yet I feel perfectly safe: https://www.google.pl/maps/@51.3167434,22.543053,3a,75y,89.33h,81.78t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sc9xcYahDqisomBdIGkDwzg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 https://www.google.pl/maps/@51.3167434,22.543053,3a,75y,89.3... cars go on it like 30 km/h cause it's so narrow. No need for any infrastructure. If the road is wide enough for cars to go faster - it's wide enough to fit pavement (one side at least). Pavement can be very narrow too - 1 m is infinitely better than no pavement. I've even seen 0.5 m pavements but that's stretching it :) If the road is so narrow you can't fit pavement there - it's probably safe already. But I've seen roads in USA and I think you just have no comparison on what "no space" means.