Every single 'issue' with increased density, mixed zoning, and more middle housing is due to cars. Traffic congestion, parking, noise. It's almost like #carsruincities.
"If you ask people what streets are for, they say cars. That's opposite of what they said one hundred years ago...Streets—venues of myriad public activities as late as 1920—were redefined as exclusive transport ways."
"Street parking was already scarce in Hoboken, New Jersey, when the death of an elderly pedestrian spurred city leaders to remove even more spaces in a bid to end traffic fatalities."
"Normalized but Marginalized" is also the impression I get from Copenhagen infrastructure: Yes we want you to ride bikes but never forget you're less important than cars when it comes to convenience or safety, you're rubbing elbows with pedestrians while cars spread their crotches across four mostly empty lanes. If cars want to turn, you share, etc. #BikeInfrastructure#ClimateAction#FuckCars#CarsRuinCities, Germany edition
I step out of my office, and a woman operating an SUV with her phone directly in her front of her face drives down the bus lane and through a solid red light. And people still ask why pedestrian fatalities are increasing.
Toronto’s consultation process is broken: the decision to not pedestrianize Kensington market was justified by 34 objections out of 1615 survey responses.