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102 sats \ 8 replies \ @Undisciplined 7h \ parent \ on: Over-Regulation is Doubling the Cost - Peter Reinhardt Politics_And_Law
Try this on for size: most major metros probably shouldn’t have any roads at all.
Just think how viscerally annoying that would be!
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42 sats \ 3 replies \ @Scoresby OP 6h
While I love the idea, roads seem like a pretty early invention in human history. Maybe we only invented them because we didn't know how to build big enough buildings, but I'd wager that even if we made buildings the size of cities, they'd have roadwats inside them. Bodies need blood vessels.
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 5h
From what I understand, it’s not that there would be no car access at all, but that there would be much more limited throughways and much larger vehicle free spaces.
Basically, vehicle access to get you close but not to directly access everywhere.
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @Murch 1h
Like the mega blocks in Barcelona:
Image from https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-00855-2
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 1h
Yeah, there are things like that in lots of places. I'm sure they're still a creation of the state, but I suspect that's a closer approximation to what a true free market would yield.
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42 sats \ 3 replies \ @Murch 7h
Or at the very least more streetcars and protected bike lanes.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 7h
Or big ass conveyer belts!
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @Murch 7h
I imagine that conveyor belts outside would be hard to maintain and get dirty rapidly. I do like Factorio as well, but walking seems mostly fine.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 7h
They’d probably be covered.
I think downtown areas would be highly connected, almost like one giant building.
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