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Re:Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality by noobermin on Monday August 05, 2019 @09:09PM (#20621051)
Arguments like this ignore the billions of dollars that maintain and create highways, roads, parking lots that the government already invests in. The blindspot regarding this "freedom" which apparently to some people exists magically is astounding.

The government created the current layout of cities by building highways and making laws and regulations that birthed the city structure we have today. It did not develop organically.

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Re:Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality by Torwald on Monday August 05, 2019 @09:22PM (#20621144)
The let me astound you even more that there also exist such things as off-road vehicles, natural roads (think of countries like SA or AUS), and that .gov cannot just bomb all it's roads away in an instant, like they could stop all trains and most flights.
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Re:Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality by esoterica on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @01:00AM (#20622274)
But most people don’t drive off-road vehicles anyway, so redesigning cities to prioritize trains over minivans does nothing to increase the population’s dependence on government infrastructure. The minivans won’t work without the roads the government built either.
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