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Re:What happens when a city bans cars from its streets? by glogla on Thursday October 17, 2019 @07:19AM (#21280836)
> Helicopters, hovercrafts and yachts also have this appeal. Nobody's saying cars will go away, just that the entirety of human infrastructure might not be constructed around them.

That's crazy overstatement. Railways are not built for cars. Water pipes are not built for cars. Airports are not built for cars. Power plants and transformers and power lines are not built for cars. Dams are not built for cars. Ports are not built for cars. Houses are not built for cars.

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Re:What happens when a city bans cars from its streets? by avar on Thursday October 17, 2019 @06:56PM (#21287120)
That's obviously not the point being made, but it's funny how you've still managed to name things that in the West are at least built around the needs of cars in most cases.

How many dams have helipads? Not many, how many can be driven over? That railway bridge? Sized to allow car traffic underneath.

Many airports have about as much car parking (or more) as runways measured by footprint, same for many power plants.

Houses either have a garage or can't be legally built without parking in many jurisdictions, how many of those require helipads?

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