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Re:Madrid announces new rules of the road in bid to banish t... by kareemsabri on Saturday October 06, 2018 @03:09PM (#18156704)
I'm anti-car, for the record. I don't drive in cities, and I think the costs of congestion, parking, noise, and pollution should be borne by those who do.

Edit: I did, in fact, say "anti-car".

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Re:Madrid announces new rules of the road in bid to banish t... by closeparen on Saturday October 06, 2018 @05:46PM (#18157436)
> I don't drive in cities

A tiny proportion of any US metro area's real estate supports this lifestyle. Usually either the most expensive, or the most hurt by gentrification and displacement. It's not a generalizable strategy without huge changes in zoning, public housing finance, and public transit infrastructure. I think we should make those changes, I vote for every pro-housing candidate and every transportation funding measure, but they are prerequisites. You can't turn off the old system before the new one is ready.

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Re:Madrid announces new rules of the road in bid to banish t... by CalRobert on Sunday October 07, 2018 @06:08PM (#18162886)
Not sure those areas really qualify as "metropolitan", then. The US has effectively no real cities. It has parking lots with mayors.
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Re:Madrid announces new rules of the road in bid to banish t... by kareemsabri on Saturday October 06, 2018 @06:32PM (#18157674)
Agreed. I'm anti-car personally, but I wouldn't force my choice on the entire nation certainly. Or even the entire city.
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Re:Madrid announces new rules of the road in bid to banish t... by dredmorbius on Saturday October 06, 2018 @03:50PM (#18156907)
I never used the phrase "anti-car"

Somebody posting under your username did:

Lot of anti-car folks on here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18155579

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Re:Madrid announces new rules of the road in bid to banish t... by kareemsabri on Saturday October 06, 2018 @03:53PM (#18156938)
Whoops.
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