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Creating Car Free Cities
Silas writes "CarFree.com is a great site that "proposes a delightful solution to the vexing problem of urban automobiles." The site presents a fascinating, detailed proposal for a major city (1 million people in 100 square miles) that doesn't require the use of cars. This isn't a new concept; a lot of the ideas are modeled off of major car free cities in Europe (like Venice)." The page on Morocco is fascinating.
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Here is where i see the future !
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Cars keep getting in the way of my Jeep and the pickup trucks of my friends.
Hydrogen baby! The fuel of today.
Eve Fairbanks says I drive a hybrid!LOL
As a famous cybersecurity activist, I feel that I am highly qualified to critique the ideas of these so-called "Car-Free Cities." It's an extension of my earlier work, called "Michael Sims-free Cities."
As a famous cybersecurity activist, I have access to highly sophisticated simulation tools. In one of these tools, which I call "Simple City 3000," roads are represented by small grid tiles which resemble pavement (or as you Americans call it, "asphalt") in appearance. Each one costs $10, but here's the kicker: each year, an upkeep cost of $1 is required. That means that in a small city with 1000 tiles of roads, $1,000 is needed just for road maintenance. In larger cities like the one I downloaded from the web yesterday, more than $50,000 is needed just to maintain the roads.
In conclusion, roads are not the answer. Proper mass transportation can save a large city upwards of $30,000 per year.
Trust me. I'm an expert.
I'm not Seth Finkelstein. I still speak the truth.
I mean here it is, 5:00 on a Friday and his webserver just melted into a pile of slag.
Er, sorry dude.
I'm familiar with Arcosanti, or "Arcology" as it is called in English. From my extensive scientific research, an Arcosanti is a large dome-like community which can only be built -- at great expense -- when a city reaches a certain level of population. It thrives as a city within a city until it is fully developed, at which time it blasts off into space, never to be seen again. I remember when I
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I'm not Seth Finkelstein. I still speak the truth.
What people fail to realize is that car free cities might soon have a serious violence problem.
Without the most popular mean of overcompensation for, ahem, insufficiencies, more and more people will turn to what were until now secondary means: guns and wife beatings.
We need to figure out a solution to this problem before we take this big step. Perhaps padded shoes or somesuch.
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The Northeast Corridor (that is to say Baltimore to Portland) should just secede from the US. You fucking idiotic Texans, Californians, Arizonans, Coloradoans, Georgians, Floridians, etc. are making me fucking sick. You're nothing more than Northeasterners who couldn't cut it in the high-point of Western Civilization.
Silicon Valley? You're a bunch of MIT rejects or MIT people who lacked the physical and mental strength to stay here. Die, assholes!
Oh yeah, and since we fucking came up with the United States, we'll take that name, thank you very much. Come up with some appropriate name like Redneckhickistan for yourselves.
I don't doubt that we'll have economic relations. We'll buy food and oil and so forth from you. But forget sending welfare checks to you inbred retards west of the Appalachians and south of Baltimore.
I swear its Springfield's only choice!
Throw up your hands, and raise your voice!
Monorail!
Monorail!
Monorail!!!
(mono -- DOH!)
Man, if this is your sig, then I'm really sorry for saying this, but you're an idiot.
.sig is about the "AIDS==HIV" hypothesis being the largest medical fraud in human history. And thanks for the ad hominem; it's evidential of the sucky quality of your argument.
Actually, my
It looks like you're saying cars don't harm the environment.
You are assuming a point in dispute which this claim.
Cars do harm the environment, and they do pollute.
The first claim is not applicable, the second claim is true.
In big cities like Los Angeles, you're lucky if you can see the hills 1/4 mile away from you. The smog is so thick on some days everything is grey, almost like an overcast day. I don't live in LA, but the few times I've visited, it sure made me glad that I live in Washington.
How much of the smog is caused by cars, and how much is caused by other things? You assume that it's all due to cars, and I don't agree.
Now, call me queer
I'm a gay man, and I don't throw around that word lightly.
I'm pretty sure that oil is bad in the water supply.
Your glittering generalities do not impress me. In any case, I agree that drinking oil would be bad. How much of that oil that you mentioned is in "the water supply"?
I would pretty much say, yeah, that cars do indeed pollute.
I agree.
And since all leftists are just Star Trek watching, socialist, college students, I wouldn't worry about what they have to say.
I agree. Unfortunately, some of them happen to be in the highest offices of the most powerful nation on earth.
Because it seems that the majority of people right now
So leftist of you. "Only the majority is important. Screw the minority!"
people who once were in college, and aren't going to give up thier selfish, wanna-have-invididualism
This is where Leftists and Christians say exactly the same thing. The Christian version of what you've said is this: "People won't give up their selfish ways and turn to God". To Leftists, God is Government (or Gaea). To Christians, God is the 3-in-1. The sin for both groups is selfishness.
even though its going to destroy the planet for everyone
I know you love Gaea very much, but we're not going to destroy the planet. Even if we pollute the hell out of it, it will be "The Earth + Pollution". The Earth will not be destroyed. Yes, I lifted that from George Carlin.
I don't make the rules. I just make fun of them.
I was just on my cell phone trying to find a house further from my work... and calling the lawn people because my neighbor's grass is two shades greener than mine (i hate that bob.)
Sincerely,
AC
well... that's a relief... i was worried for a moment that monorail was mentioned without someone bringing up the simpsons. what a sad day on slashdot that would've been!
I did this in Simcity Classic with trains. I'll submit my solution (saved game) to carfree.com
Obviously, both your troubles ocurred in an area known as statistically dangerous for alcohol related accidents. This is also why it is dangerous to ride a bike near churches, police stations, and airport runways.
This doesn't even take into account NYC, where it is traditionally acceptable to drive on sidewalks during rush hour, provided you honk the horn repeatedly.
I guess they'll have to strap a subwoofer to their ass so they can still walk down the street and annoy people with their lack of respect for others.
Feel sad for all the weenies that think that a honda looks so much better with fins, spoilers, stickers, neon etc...but I guess that's what body mods are for.