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unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

No amount of dishonesty can invalidate the fact that in a typical german city that ambulance would be going literally 10 times as fast without any issues. Its not just stupid drivers, but NYC is also just a complete failure in terms of road design.

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Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
NYC is thrice as dense as Berlin, the densest city in Germany. Probably accounts for something.

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- Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It really doesn’t, because in Germany cars always move out of the way. Even if the street is completely full of cars waiting at a red light for example.
  
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  - rapchee@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    tbf it’s because there is room for them or the ambulance to move to, like a bus lane, a bicycle path etc, but that’s not acceptable in many places
    
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    Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    No, that’s my point. In the video there is much more room to move than what I mean, with two lanes it mostly suffices to just move the car to either edge of the road.
    
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Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Well it wasn’t leveled 80 years ago.

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- unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Its not that deep. They just need to remove 2 of the three car lanes, replace em with a bike and a bus lane and the problems is solved.
  
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  - Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I would love to hear someone propose that at a city council.
    
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    unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Im sure that has happened, but the car lobby has the money and money is literally the only deciding factor in US politics.
    
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- Miaou@jlai.lu ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  American cities indeed are, after all, pedestrian oriented
  
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