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.

Even though I only go to stores that I planned to go to ahead of time, this switch is great because it means things are closer together and there is roughly the same amount of walking as driving to multiple stores and needing to walk from the lot into each one. Plus the view is better!

There’s a spot not far from my house that’s right across a little pedestrian bridge. The shops are lined up along a walking path and face a small park. They do enormous amounts of business, particularly in the evenings when kids are out playing and adults can simply walk across the street to grab dinner or visit the sports bar.

Jane Jacobs wrote about this pretty extensively in “Death and life of great American cities” back in like the 1960s, if anyone hasn’t read that.

…and won’t be able to park, because…well, cars.

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

That’s how apartment and house pictures get me. The brightly edited rooms look so nice!

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.

I like this very much, a waterway instead of an highway

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.

The infra is still a bit lacking but when I visited I found the drivers to be surprisingly decent with bikes & peds.

Look at the store signs. It’s only a slightly different angle. Specifically on the right.

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.

The answer is it would work much better because you wouldn’t have the parked cars wasting space and making it difficult for the plows to clean the street quickly.

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.

People with wheelchairs can move better on the roads with cars?

And making those places inaccessible to people with mobility issues.

builds impassable six lane highway through center of town

tears up all the sidewalks and floods the air with noxious vehicle exhaust

no public transit, you just need to put your vehicle on the other side of a half-acre wide parking lot and hoof it in the middle of the baking sun

Thank goodness we made all these improvements for the sake of people with mobility issues.

Cause that narrow-ass curb used to be very wheelchair accessible indeed.

Paris is a nightmare city for people with mobility issues.

Hey look, it’s someone using disabled people as their personal prop to push a political agenda that harms those same people

Could you explain how this is less accessible? Is a mall less accessible because you can’t drive your car inside?

Tell me how a blind person can drive.
A blind person can live in the road taken in photo in this post.

Which of the two pictures show somewhere that is more accessible to someone using a wheelchair, the same accessibility aid that would allow them to access the shops themselves?

The one with level access, clearer visibility and without the risk of not being seen by a chunk of metal travelling at relative high speed or the one that has on street parking?

Lol, the car brain on this one. People with disabilities get by fine in the Netherlands. In fact, they lead a way more fulfilling life because they get to be part of day to day life. If your disability is this severe, you’d need help anyway. There’s no way you can drive a car with a disability that bad. Go play in traffic, you seem to love it so much.

Yeah, good luck driving in London anyway.

Finally someone with a sincere and compassionate argument for car acess everywhere. Never heard that one before, great point!