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- urbanism@slrpnk.net
- Goodtoknow ( @Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca ) 23•1 year ago
Love this quote: Mayor Fernandez Lores was unmoved. “It’s not my duty as mayor to make sure you have a parking spot,” he said at a 2020 conference. “For me, it’s the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you’re going to put them.”
It really absurd how much governmental bending over backwards we make for people to store and move their private property wherever they please (and subsidies)
It really absurd how much governmental bending over backwards we make for people to store and move their private property wherever they please (and subsidies)
But only if that property is a car. God forbid you want to use that same space to store anything else.
- lntl ( @lntl@lemmy.ml ) 5•1 year ago
lol, if i parked my bike along the curb a car would just drive over it an park.
- HubertManne ( @HubertManne@kbin.social ) 3•1 year ago
Yes my condo assocation does have bike hangars I was able to install in my space but only 2 and other than that only a car and one grocery cart is allowed. I can’t put a storage cube in my space rather than a car for example.
- maegul (he/they) ( @maegul@lemmy.ml ) English13•1 year ago
What strikes me here are
- cars are still allowed but heavily limited to when necessary or of very high utility (eg for certain kinds of delivery)
- they have a car “interface”: car parking facilities at the edge of the town
- Public transport is also limited as the city is highly walkable, which forces me to wonder how much the public transport v cars is a bit of a false dichotomy.
Public transport is also limited as the city is highly walkable, which forces me to wonder how much the public transport v cars is a bit of a false dichotomy.
It is also just a pretty small place, there’s less need for public transport when everything is within walking distance.
- catch22 ( @catch22@programming.dev ) 5•1 year ago
Wow, such a cool concept. I grew up in a city of around the same size, (~100k) it would have been incredible to go from one end to the other without having to worry about being hit by a car on my bike.