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Re:Life in the Spanish city that banned cars by njarboe on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @02:48PM (#18018026)
I love small walkable shopping centers that are organically grown over decades that mix residential, commercial, and retail uses. I live in such an area and it is great, but, if society wants to find a way to move to a better human scale constructed landscapes, it might be a good idea to stop referring to people in cars as non-human inhabited objects and use a more human focus word like motorist. We use pedestrian for a person use their feet or a bicyclist or biker for someone using a bicycle.

Cars can be a great tool for humans to use and they are not yet running around without a human inside.

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Re:Life in the Spanish city that banned cars by legulere on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @03:52PM (#18018557)
Cars are typically utilized under 5% of the time. A car most of the time is a non-human inhabited object that is wasting a lot of space
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Re:Life in the Spanish city that banned cars by njarboe on Thursday September 20, 2018 @03:56AM (#18030519)
Similar to most rooms in a house/apartment? My living room and dining room is utilized way under 5% of the the time, both more square feet than my car.

I think the most intrusive part of cars are when they are moving. That is when they are dangerous, mess with peds and bikers, and occupying roads that break up community space. Look at how much parking structures are as a % of the total building space in downtown SF or Manhattan. Not nothing, but pretty small. Maybe 5%. Probably less.

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