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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm confused why people are so upset. This is about moving people from dense urban hells into smaller towns. A 15 minute city is called a town. And living in a town vs a city really improves your life, your community bonds, your time management, etc. [/quote]

Because some activists are taking that concept and pushing to eliminate cars and parking.  Like with many things nowadays the broad based non-poliyical non-controversial idea gets latched onto by the loud politicized morons in the back and used as a figleaf for their radical and stupid hobbyhorses.  These morons then provide the ammunition for others to make it a political issue.

To paraphrase Yeats, the best lack conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.[/quote]

No one is taking away your cars, and it isn't up to government to identify public space to store your car.  The bottom line is that for most people under 30, the cost to own, insure and operate a car are prohibitive, and renting or buying a place that adds additional cost for parking is also prohibitive. That is why so many younger people are flocking to cities where the can bike, bus, subway, uber to places as opposed to driving. They are saving close to $10,000 a year in costs.

Cities are responding to that and to the climate crisis.

The bottom line is that we did it the way of an auto-centric country from the 1920's to the 2020's and all it got us was sprawl, more carbon in the air we breathe and a built environment that is generally hostile to humans. There is a reason people love going to old cities in Europe and the middle east, and to the older neighborhoods in the US. They were designed before cars, they stand the test of time, they are walkable and interesting, unlike most of what has been built since 1945.

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