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I’d love to see some of the east, where there were cities built long before cars that have some of the public transit infrastructure necessary, to start doing w
by MBCook 3y ago
I’d love to see some of the east, where there were cities built long before cars that have some of the public transit infrastructure necessary, to start doing what Paris and other places have done by removing cars from streets and replacing them with walkable parks and neighborhood shops and gathering places.
More like they used to be.
New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC, there’s plenty of places that could do it. They could prove the concept.
I don’t see how it would work in a city like Dallas or LA as they exist today. They would try and it would be deemed a failure and never tried again.
But successful trials in a few very dense places could really start to show the benefits and maybe we could start bringing it to other cities, even those more traditionally spread out.
- tim333 3y agoI guess in places like LA you can to limited areas like the 3rd st mall and expand (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@34.01585,-118.4963694,3a,90y,285.81h,85.1t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sdDTOi9Wg-zWVxoyUlqXGEQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@34.01585,-118.4963694,3a,90y,...) And in London they have patches like the bit near Kings Cross I like https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5349883,-0.125411,3a,75y,73.54h,90.62t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxy8juCyNkHaUXsnF8iQsGg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5349883,-0.125411,3a,75y,7... I guess you could gradually make those and link them with tube / rail etc