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Re:Electric scooter ban increased congestion by 10% in Atlanta by lm28469 on Monday October 31, 2022 @01:25PM (#33409267)
Sure but one is a step in the right direction while the other adds a pile of shit on top of the existing pile of shit

It's like hotfixing a completely broken pile of spaghetti code in prod, it'll save your sunday evening but you're in for 6 months of rewrite anyways

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Re:Electric scooter ban increased congestion by 10% in Atlanta by bombcar on Monday October 31, 2022 @01:43PM (#33409573)
Every single change to a city of any reasonable size is exactly that hot fix, even if it takes months or years to implement (see: Big Dig). Desiring grand unified "fix everything" projects rarely works wonders, whereas small-scope projects over time can improve things. In many suburbs just building sidewalks and bike paths would improve things tremendously.
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