Re:How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking”
by closeparen on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @03:56AM
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You can have high-throughout roads into cities, or hypergentrification in urban neighborhoods as people move closer to minimize transportation needs. The existing suburban masses are not going to vanish into thin air.
Re:How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking”
by dozzie on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @05:44PM
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> it's that most cities no longer function properly for the carless
I think the world outside USA would want a word with you about that "most cities" part.
Re:How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking”
by pwaai on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @02:31PM
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> I suspect we can find a place for them outside of our most densely populated urban cores.
That seems unconstitutional and a bit like North Korea where they restrict cars to specific areas and ban it in others.
Re:How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking”
by dragonwriter on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @02:34PM
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> That seems unconstitutional
There is no Constitutional right to bear cars.
Re:How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking”
by Sharlin on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @04:12PM
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Personal cars are already banned in the centers of many cities. Or if not forthright banned, heavy congestion tolls levied. As it should be. It's about your freedom to drive vs. my freedom to not suffer from the negative externalities your driving causes.
I suspect we can find a place for them outside of our most densely populated urban cores. The popularity of cars isn't in itself a scandal. The scandal is that cars still enjoy undue priority in places like Midtown Manhattan, it's that urban neighborhoods were destroyed and divided by interstate highways, it's that most cities no longer function properly for the carless.