PLEASE put a stop to insane car sizes. I'm from the US and our cars, SUVs, and trucks have gotten so huge it would be humorous if not for the thousands of extra children it's killing each year.
In the words of the Australian health minister: is it how the US is doing it? Don't do that.
Most are gone. T a combination of being zoned out and people being willing to drive 30 minutes to a big box store instead of walking 5 to a corner market nuked most of them.
I have a map of where they used to be in my city 100 years ago. (We do transit advocacy and need data on city history.) They used to be every 400m or so across the entire city, but now? Only a few remain.
Nope. My city is both trying to make the old streetcar suburb neighborhoods walkable again while also annexing places that are miles of road with nothing but sterile housing along it.
When develops buy some farmland, plunk a bunch of terribly build single family houses on it, sell it all off, and walk away the people who bought the houses find out that they're not in a municipality. They wanted a house and low taxes and their own yard, but there's no schools, fire dept, police, real water services, or road maintenance. So... They start begging to be annexed into the city to have the old downtown's taxes pay for their services.
It looks good on paper to add land and population, plus shiny new roads don't cost much for about 15 years, which is longer than most city council members stay on the council. It's someone else's problem when the bills come due. Our city council have been pushovers for decades and just keep adding shithole tax burden neighborhoods to the city and it's all starting to die fast.
It's not a conservative's problem until it effects them personally. By then it's usually too late, but at least they feel bad about that one issue for a while.
He told them it was okay to be openly racist and hateful again. Once you do that, conservatives will follow you anywhere.
Hey now, that's not fair: many are also abducted while attending legal immigration processes at government facilities.
Working and following the law are now dangerous activities for brown people (more dangerous than they were before).
The fun part about that is how we in the US haven't learned that lesson. We're still building massive park and ride systems that see very little use in many places, but we'd rather fail big (and expensively) than actually reduce traffic.
To make Park and Ride be more effective it needs to be paired with fast, high frequency public transit (and/or great biking infrastructure), then make it very painful to driver the car into the city. Reduce speeds, narrow out lanes, remove in city parking, remove free parking, put in speed bumps, prioritize pedestrians. Basically make it suck to use your dangerous, ecologically destructive noise machine where people should be instead of cars. Otherwise people just skip the overhead of the Park and Ride to drive into the downtown area anyway.
Canada being technically in the EU geographically to become a full EU member state would be an epic "technically correct is best kind of correct" moment.
I build a bridge out of our pillows. Two bor the base, then one spanning a small gap. I put my Earthward arm's hand up the the gap and my head on the bridge pillow.
Nothing falls asleep improperly.
In all major US cities since the 1970's that have a river in the downtown area, the percentage concentration of dihydrogen monoxide has been increasing! We keep finding more and more of it in parts per million in our river water. At what point will someone in our government stand up for us and say this is enough?!?
This is great to see. I'm very happy the University is using modern city infrastructure options.
Being in Berlin, I see tons of personal cargo bikes, the postal service uses cargo bikes, and there's many pedal-driven cargo trucks (including DHL and UPS ones). When you've got good bike infrastructure, you get a lot done one two or three wheels without much hassle.
Both very good points and grounded in reality, though my attitude is more about the general public being stupid more than the general public recognizing the limits of the roads or even the law.
https://etsc.eu/sales-of-dangerous-us-pickup-trucks-up-20-in-europe/
The uptick in people leveraging the individual registrations is a canary in the coal mine. People want to have giant wasteful crap. At least some people do. If enough people start having big trucks and SUVs on the road, the demand to make allowances for them grows. Can you knock down the old Regensburg medieval city for SUVs? Unlikely. Can you start making more suburban style roads and land wasteful areas outside of the downtown? Most assuredly.
I'm hoping smarter and more reasonable heads prevail in the EU. I don't care what people want on this front. The car makers want to sell huge killing machines since they're higher profit per unit. There's at least some people wanting to buy them. The protection of pedestrians, the environment, and the city itself from terrible infrastructure designed to accommodate these trash machines should win out if at all possible.