Car with horse existed when theses road were designed.
It's even a paved road, I find it a bit sad they tore down the pavement.
There is even a photo somewhere on internet where you can see a dead horse with kids playing next to it as car pass by.
Exemple of a photo 100year ago in Paris:
Pedestrian can walk on pavement.
I'd like to remind that cars were banned in center of Rome, because there was too much cars.
And I'm talking about the Rome of 2000 years ago.
They might have not suffered the noise of cars as much as today, but accordig to that photo they did constantly suffer the noise of lowercase a everywhere
Making a road with shops and services pedestrian-only will greatly increase foot traffic and people shopping there. Now people will walk down the street and stop in places they happen to find. In cars people who to know about it and specifically choose to go there.
Even though I only go to stores that I planned to go to ahead of time, this switch is great because it means things are closer together and there is roughly the same amount of walking as driving to multiple stores and needing to walk from the lot into each one. Plus the view is better!
There's a spot not far from my house that's right across a little pedestrian bridge. The shops are lined up along a walking path and face a small park. They do enormous amounts of business, particularly in the evenings when kids are out playing and adults can simply walk across the street to grab dinner or visit the sports bar.
I am all on board with "Fuck Cars", but also your street is always going to look nicer with bright overhead lighting during midday, relative to the dreary shadows of the early morning.
The buildings on the left have sunbeams on them and you can see the bright sky reflected on the car windscreens. The bottom pic has a cloudy sky but has been brightened and saturated as much as the top pic has been dulled and greyed.
I saw no cars, plants, people walking and enjoying, I saw beauty. Just the "oh but the lighting is better too" is something I really just plain missed.
Pretty sure Sadiq khan tried to pedestrianise Oxford street but the conservative local council were like no actually we quite like the most polluted street in Europe as is thanks a lot I prefer the palpable scent of particulate emissions and nitrous oxide, how else am I going to enjoy my boarded up empty shops? Tories man, you know what they’re like
As I understand it, the big problem with any Oxford Street pedestrianisation is the diverted bus routes. Everything would have to go down Wigmore Street, which would have to be converted back to a two-way street.
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Let’s try that here in Minneapolis. See how well that works with several inches of snow cover and sub-zero temps.
I’m def not a “I love cars” kind of person, but a heated and protected pod to transport me, my family and friends, my belongings and anything I purchase is a necessity. Can’t just “pop to the grocery” every day or two in winter conditions even if I didn’t live miles away from any viable store with food.
I grew up in northern Minnesota. Fuck whatever your saying. You absolutely can pop to the grocery. It's disingenuous AF to say this place is inhospitable without automobiles. The Anishinaabe have managed it. I managed it. Litteral millons do.
What you meant to say is "surviving in a place like Minnesota requires planning and community" I'm MN born and raised. I haven't owned an automobile for 15years. It's very possible.
And seeing how there's ten billion souls on this planet, rapidly fucking it up, it would behoove us to live with less resource expenditures. Any way you stack it up, from leaded gasoline to the sleekest EV, the personal automobile is a gluttonous, selfish act. We can live without them, your very existence is proof. Ride the bus, snow shoe, ski, walk bus, fuck.
I like how you included fuck with the modes of transportation. Now I'm imagining some sort of tricycle or quadcycle that harnesses thrusting motion to propel you.
The answer is it would work much better because you wouldn't have the parked cars wasting space and making it difficult for the plows to clean the street quickly.
I walk to my grocer frequently (1-2 per week) in northern ontario and have no difficulties due to snow or ice. I use a small backpack and some cotton bags to carry my grocceries. I have a nice coat and good boots.
They can get to places via a car easier and not have to work getting to somewhere in a maze of smug pedestrians and bike riders. And decent societies with fair, good policies towards people with those issues give them places close to where they're going an exclusive place to park via a tag/permit to park there.
What a fucking concept. Something you people don't even think of at all because you're ableist and privileged and believe everyone is just like you. Fascist.
Parking lots have special spots for people with mobility issues right up front. Can you stop lying to promote your nightmarish, dystopian anti-car future, you ableist pricks?
The only ones pushing an agenda is you hateful elitist ableist fucks. Holy fuck, it's just a nightmare in our society now with christians, vegans, alt-right fuckwits, and you shitlords trying to push your fucking horrible lifestyle on people to make everyone's life a living goddamn motherfucking hell.
You fascist ableists will twist words wherever you can to make your fucking garbage nightmare society come true. Fuck you, you hateful shits. As someone with mobility issues, your fucking "utopia" is a goddamn nightmare. How about putting yourself in the shoes of someone with mobility issues (hint: being blind is a specific handicap, not a mobility issue, you lying prick) and imagine trying to get anywhere in your nightmare world?
Which of the two pictures show somewhere that is more accessible to someone using a wheelchair, the same accessibility aid that would allow them to access the shops themselves?
The one with level access, clearer visibility and without the risk of not being seen by a chunk of metal travelling at relative high speed or the one that has on street parking?
The one you can fucking drive a car up to. The road one isn't perfect but at the very least they fucking tried. Needs more parking and handicap-reserved parking, but yeah, that one. Enjoy navigating all the way from wherever you get dropped off in your nightmare dystopia all the way there and back in a wheelchair or cane/walker (not everyone who has a disability is rich enough to own a damn motorized wheelchair -- again, elitism on your part).
This isn't a debate. This is fact. Just admit you're wrong. This debate is over. Fuck your garbage, hateful, ableist attitudes. This isn't politically motivated, this isn't some troll, this is from someone with an actual disability and is tired of seeing these nightmare designed places I could never, EVER get to thanks to your idealistic bullshit designed for happy, healthy people.
Maybe one day when you're old and start having a debilitating problem and can't get to your fucking dystopian walking places any more, you'll understand.
Lol, the car brain on this one. People with disabilities get by fine in the Netherlands. In fact, they lead a way more fulfilling life because they get to be part of day to day life. If your disability is this severe, you'd need help anyway. There's no way you can drive a car with a disability that bad. Go play in traffic, you seem to love it so much.
If you can't get to where you need to go easily, how the fuck do they get to be part of day to day life? Ooops, yet another lie by the hateful ableists. Fuck off.