Comment on Car hits pedestrians in Melbourne, killing Supernova Comic Con attendee

SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• eureka@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s a pretty reasonable long-term goal in many areas, like cities. There are pedestrian-only streets near me already. We just need a long-term vision and the infrastructure to follow it.

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  • SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can certainly reduce the presence of cars in certain areas and improve the design of cities to this end. But just saying “ban cars” is idiotic.

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    • bountygiver@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Humanity has lived longer without them than with them, and even in present day, there’s still real places with people living in it that bans cars (at least for personal use ones, emergency/service vehicles still allowed)

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      • SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s a ridiculous comparison, that video is about a single neighbourhood. You’d need to completely redesign and rebuild any modern city to function completely without cars.

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• DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You’re laughing at a pedestrian being killed and another seriously injured. You should be ashamed of yourself

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  • SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is your reading comprehension really this bad? I’m laughing at your incredibly simple minded call to ban cars.

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    • DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There’s no way to safely mix cars with people. If there was, we would have done it by now. If anything else killed as many people as cars, we would ban it.

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      • SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Alcohol kills more people than cars every year.

        Banning cars would radically alter every person’s lifestyle and require massive replanning of cities. It’s a ridiculous proposal.

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      • Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        There is.

        There are villages in the Netherlands where there is no grade separation, bike paths, foot paths or even lane markings.

        There are no street signs; the only road rule is to try to keep to the right, where safe and don’t try to occupy the same space as any other road user.

        They have no collisions because every road user understands that every other road user has as much right to be there as they do.

        When you put artificial rules in place that gives someone else more rights than someone else, that person will feel more entitled. They are less likely to respect other road users.

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      • FireXtol@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Guns recently overtook cars as the number 1 killer of children in the good ol US of A.

        The only thing we seem to be banning is people of colors with funny accents and social safety nets.

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