cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40818280
If there’s anything we should take from Japan, it’s treating cars like second class citizens behind transit instead of the other way around. The cute tiny cars are more a side effect of that.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40818280
If there’s anything we should take from Japan, it’s treating cars like second class citizens behind transit instead of the other way around. The cute tiny cars are more a side effect of that.
That sounds tricky to implement, but I’m not strictly opposed. I’ve always been more of the opinion that some streets should just be converted to people-only altogether, at least in my downtown (there’s one street that gets closed to traffic once/week for the farmer’s market anyways…).
In Europe there are quite a few cities that ban cars that don’t meet certain emmission standards. Most big trucks likely fall under these bans, but it would also not hard to ban cars larger than a certain size.
These European citizens usually have exceptions for professional use and stuff like that, so that’s not too hard to do either.
Same goes with pedestrian zones, which are also very common in most European cities.