If you insist on building cities too big for cars, the very real answer is "All cities get built like Barcelona". Dense/small enough to support transit Giant enough roads that ripping out a bus lane and a bike lane and a "Grocery unloading lane" is still 2-3 car lanes
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Yes, I mean too *big*. One of my pet urban design hobbyhorses is: * Vegas is full, the traffic is exploding and the freeways are 4 lanes. * Vegas was built around Jefferson-style avenue roads a mile apart. * Vegas is 115F in summer So uh...
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It leads a bit to a disneyfication of cities like mine, Portland OR. Where only the rich, young, job-mobile and childless can live.
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The “drastic decline in the standard of living” is the point. Projects like “Vision Zero” aren’t about “zero deaths”, they’re about zero deaths through *zero cars*. They plan a utopia where everyone walks and bikes and takes public transportation everywhere! Basically hell.
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continue the extrap, standard of living decline leads to deaths and shorter harder lifespans.
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"a 13 year study proves that when you reduce the number lanes of traffic, there is less traffic (and fewer fatalities)"
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