It'd be great if posts like this could include a) the location, b) when it was taken and c) who the photographer was.
This photo was taken in central Scotland around July 2022, I’ll tag stuff with OC in the future.
...where in central Scotland?
That’s why I actually like car infrastructure.
If one day. Self driving cars become reality, many people will be able to live without owning one themselves.
And then the places previously occupied by cars will ensure that there is room in cities for some green.
Or you could design cities to have green in the first place by designing for better modes of transport than cars. Cars take up a huge amount of space both while traveling and while not in use, instead of spending all that money and space on cars you can have public transit, cycling infrastructure, walking infrastructure, and greener cities.
Easier is just to have covered parking lots, with a green roof. No massive societal changes requires, just an expensive parking garage.
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Or you could design cities to have green in the first place by designing for better modes of transport than cars.
But there are no better modes of transport than cars. They are literally the most used vehicles on earth. This means they have topped every other form so far. The natural next step in the cars evolution is self driving electric vehicles. So cars will be used by multiple people, so there are less cars overall and those cars could be stored in large strategically well placed big parking lot buildings.
Cars take up a huge amount of space both while traveling and while not in use, instead of spending all that money and space on cars you can have public transit, cycling infrastructure, walking infrastructure, and greener cities.
I agree on cycling infrastructure and other forms of public transport. The more options people get, the better. But cars are irreplaceable. Car infrastructure is the most flexible we have. Ambulances, police, craftsmen, busses, taxis, you can easily transform them into pedestrian territory, or turn them into bike lanes. And as I claimed before, if the next 100 years bring us new technologies and self driving cars revolutionise public transport, then this infrastructure offers the option to increase green surfaces in cities.
Yes is a good dream but you know the capitalists will make it PAYG that is over priced and takes half your weekly wage
What does that have to do with capitalism? All the other options aren’t for free either.
OR, the sad reality will probably be that Entrepreneurs will buy these places and simply build more houses on them.
On the big parking spaces? Yea probably. But the smaller parking spaces along the roads? I don’t think that the place is big enough for housing.
it's a tree park now
