Thread: Should cars be banned from inner parts of large European cities?
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Old 04-17-2007
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Re: Should cars be banned from inner parts of large European cities?
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Originally Posted by Slartibartfas View Post
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)
In New York, Chicago and San Diego, the cities I know best, there are good PT systems in place and they still have made it accessible to vehicles. In Chicago and New York there are even very good PT systems to get from the burbs to the city. In fact both can be accomodated. Whether you want them to or not is the question not whether it can be done.
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