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Re: Should cars be banned from inner parts of large European cities?
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Originally Posted by Gort
Sucre on the whole you can't make that generalized statement. Look at large cities like Chicago, New York, San Francisco, San Diego, and a number of others. In fact the verticle housing boom is going great guns in those cities. Why? Because people do in fact want to live there. Now in cities like St. Louis and the next tier of smaller cities you are correct, but then again they do not offer the excitement or amenities that the larger cities offer in their downtown areas.
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You are correct, but that was not the main point Sucre pointed at as far as I can see it. The main point was that simply because European cities have different priorities and are not entirely circling around the imperative of the car, that they are less developed. Their transportation infrastructure can be as developed or even more more than in American cities without having such a large car infrastructure. Simply because the car is not the sole means of transport, and if we are honest it is the one with the largest disadvantages for the quality of life within a city.
Yes, of course most European cities have a different heritage, and have an easier game to rely more on different things than the the car, but thats another story.
In short, the level of development of a cities transport infrastructure is not a direct result from the number of its highways. (or all the other roads)
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