Re:Europe’s cities are making less room for cars after coron...
by KozmoNau7 on Sunday April 26, 2020 @05:48AM
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The "car mandatory" suburb sprawls are a huge part of the problem.
Most of them are deliberately deprived of decent public transit, because a segment of people don't want buses and especially don't want trains in/near their neighborhood. The most common explanation I've heard is that public transit attracts the homeless, the poor and criminals.
A lot of suburbs are even designed to prevent walkability for the same reasons, leaving out logical shortcut footpaths and bike paths between streets and cul-de-sacs.
This obviously speaks to a whole host of societal problems and paranoia, to be honest.
With a good local train network with stops in every neighborhood, you could just leave the car at home and not have to worry about parking in the city.
Most of them are deliberately deprived of decent public transit, because a segment of people don't want buses and especially don't want trains in/near their neighborhood. The most common explanation I've heard is that public transit attracts the homeless, the poor and criminals.
A lot of suburbs are even designed to prevent walkability for the same reasons, leaving out logical shortcut footpaths and bike paths between streets and cul-de-sacs.
This obviously speaks to a whole host of societal problems and paranoia, to be honest.
With a good local train network with stops in every neighborhood, you could just leave the car at home and not have to worry about parking in the city.