Almost like how most of those streets were originally designed, before cars were invented
Car with horse existed when theses road were designed.
It’s even a paved road, I find it a bit sad they tore down the pavement. There is even a photo somewhere on internet where you can see a dead horse with kids playing next to it as car pass by.Exemple of a photo 100year ago in Paris:
Pedestrian can walk on pavement.
I’d like to remind that cars were banned in center of Rome, because there was too much cars.
And I’m talking about the Rome of 2000 years ago.They might have not suffered the noise of cars as much as today, but accordig to that photo they did constantly suffer the noise of lowercase a everywhere
A horse carriage is very loud on pavement.
Also lots of horseshit everywhere.If this norm would be brought today we would have c/fuckhorse.
Ahem, maybe another name…
I am all on board with “Fuck Cars”, but also your street is always going to look nicer with bright overhead lighting during midday, relative to the dreary shadows of the early morning.
The buildings on the left have sunbeams on them and you can see the bright sky reflected on the car windscreens. The bottom pic has a cloudy sky but has been brightened and saturated as much as the top pic has been dulled and greyed.
We get the point, but be honest
The bottom picture looks like a mock up computer generated image from an architect’s presentation of their plan for the street.
THAT is what you saw?
I saw no cars, plants, people walking and enjoying, I saw beauty. Just the “oh but the lighting is better too” is something I really just plain missed.
That’s how apartment and house pictures get me. The brightly edited rooms look so nice!
And bring back the canals that were turned into highways in the 80’s (Utrecht, the Netherlands)
I like this very much, a waterway instead of an highway
Pretty sure Sadiq khan tried to pedestrianise Oxford street but the conservative local council were like no actually we quite like the most polluted street in Europe as is thanks a lot I prefer the palpable scent of particulate emissions and nitrous oxide, how else am I going to enjoy my boarded up empty shops? Tories man, you know what they’re like
It’s almost as though conservative ideology has nothing to offer than to stand in the of way making things better
As I understand it, the big problem with any Oxford Street pedestrianisation is the diverted bus routes. Everything would have to go down Wigmore Street, which would have to be converted back to a two-way street.
Iirc the plan was to only allow buses (and maybe black cabs?)
There’s been a few different suggestions, I’m not sure what the current iteration says.
Needs more bicycles
The infra is still a bit lacking but when I visited I found the drivers to be surprisingly decent with bikes & peds.
Great for the Yak & Yeti. Devastating for the Samrana.
One reason can be that police has to walk to get there without the whoop whoop beep beep armored cars
🤷 generalizing but west end isn’t narrow here. There are some old narrow neighborhoods that would be great candidates though.
Nice little WEF slave. This is called a 15 minute city. IYKYK.
A city where everything I need is within 15 minutes of walking? Whats so bad about that?
How WEF would implement it? If you agree with that, you would literally be an enemy of mankind.
Yeah, the WEF keeps implenting the NWO with 5G, AI and 15 minute cities to help the CIA, FBI and NSA get even more control of the WHO and IMF, causing the WTO to collude with the UN to vaccinate us all.
If you want to be a WEF slave have at it.
Let’s try that here in Minneapolis. See how well that works with several inches of snow cover and sub-zero temps.
I’m def not a “I love cars” kind of person, but a heated and protected pod to transport me, my family and friends, my belongings and anything I purchase is a necessity. Can’t just “pop to the grocery” every day or two in winter conditions even if I didn’t live miles away from any viable store with food.
I grew up in northern Minnesota. Fuck whatever your saying. You absolutely can pop to the grocery. It’s disingenuous AF to say this place is inhospitable without automobiles. The Anishinaabe have managed it. I managed it. Litteral millons do.
What you meant to say is “surviving in a place like Minnesota requires planning and community” I’m MN born and raised. I haven’t owned an automobile for 15years. It’s very possible.
And seeing how there’s ten billion souls on this planet, rapidly fucking it up, it would behoove us to live with less resource expenditures. Any way you stack it up, from leaded gasoline to the sleekest EV, the personal automobile is a gluttonous, selfish act. We can live without them, your very existence is proof. Ride the bus, snow shoe, ski, walk bus, fuck.
I like how you included fuck with the modes of transportation. Now I’m imagining some sort of tricycle or quadcycle that harnesses thrusting motion to propel you.
Lol I meant it more as punctuation, but never stop dreaming friend!
Time to mount the thrust cycle and get some groceries!
The goonmobile
Something like Mr Garrison’s monowheel perhaps?
What he meant to say is he’s a little bitch who can’t stand the cold but at the same time is too chickenshit to move somewhere else.
- From a little bitch in Florida
You drive a bicycle with a little basket on it
That would be dope. Lille bell too
I walk to my grocer frequently (1-2 per week) in northern ontario and have no difficulties due to snow or ice. I use a small backpack and some cotton bags to carry my grocceries. I have a nice coat and good boots.
Right? Layer up, good pace, you’re golden!
