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YoYoMoMa t1_j8o167y wrote

Reply to comment by Quantius in Parklet fee: Restaurants, bars weigh future of outdoor structures by GovernorOfReddit

Absolutely not.

We should be taking over entire streets for eating and thoroughfares, at least past morning deliveries. I am looking at you Charles and Thames and 36th and Cross(?).

Every city, here and abroad, that has made parts car free never goes back. NYC did this shit to times square "for a year" about ten years back.

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lolokaydudewhatever t1_j8q411j wrote

Those cities have half decent public transportation

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YoYoMoMa t1_j8q7nzk wrote

Nah. I went to Dubrovnik and there are no cars in the entire city center. Not much better transit than Baltimore.

Transit should be worked on but people will come MORE if you ban cars not less. People with cars want to come and park and be in amazing spaces the same as the rest of us.

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lolokaydudewhatever t1_j8r74jd wrote

Dubrovnik Croatia?!?

Does that city even have a quarter of the population of Baltimore?

What a terrible example

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bmore t1_j8s6w98 wrote

There are plenty of examples in the US and globally that make it work just fine with comparable transit systems and populations.

Decent transit comes at the expense of parking and driving convenience. Gotta pick one.

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