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Re:If we all cycled like the Dutch, global emissions would d... by scoofy on Sunday January 08, 2023 @02:49PM (#34302413)
Even in San Francisco, the second densest major city in America, the automobile lobby put a proposition on the ballot to remove the only car-free street in the city.

The amount of push back from the against any infrastructure that limits the automobile here is so overwhelming, it's completely ridiculous. I've been pushing for more cycling infrastructure my entire adult life. In NYC, Austin, and SF. Basically the only way to get it done is for the politicians to actually take a risk like Bloomberg did, and just do it by fiat. So long as you're trying to build a cycling system, the existing NIMBY populace will freak out.

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Re:If we all cycled like the Dutch, global emissions would d... by midoridensha on Sunday January 08, 2023 @10:03PM (#34306217)
And this shows the fundamental problem: it's the people themselves, the voting public, who in car-centric places oppose any attempts at making the place less car-centric. Then they whine about how it's infeasible to be less car-centric. Yes, that's true: it's because they, themselves, have opposed such efforts!
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