Europe’s cities are making less room for cars after coronavirus

Re:Europe’s cities are making less room for cars after coron... by 2019-nCoV on Saturday April 25, 2020 @10:32PM (#22983828)

That analogy breaks down as smokers had no alternative. After bars banned smoking they lost few (if any) smoking customers while relishing in troves from the non-smoking demographic. Car-centric Viennese can still avoid Begegnungszonen.

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Re:Europe’s cities are making less room for cars after coron... by petre on Sunday April 26, 2020 @12:35AM (#22984463)

Of course they did: quit smoking, smoke outside.

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Re:Europe’s cities are making less room for cars after coron... by vladvasiliu on Sunday April 26, 2020 @02:38AM (#22985063)

Smokers had no alternative as in no other place where to take their business. Smokers themselves were not banned from bars, just the act of smoking.

People of Vienna who wanted to go shopping in their cars could have went shopping in some other shops accessible by car.

There were no bars where the smokers could have went to smoke.

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Re:Europe’s cities are making less room for cars after coron... by petre on Sunday April 26, 2020 @02:48AM (#22985107)

Outside? It's weird, because I've been to a restaurant in Vienna and they had a three by two metre windowed and ventilated smoking compartment where smokers were enjoying their habit. In my country it's completeley banned in closed public spaces as it should be.

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