Livable Cities

Japan also has immigrants.

Something your average neo nazi type doesn’t realize when they hold Japan as an example of an ethnostate.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-31/the-quiet-power-of-car-free-neighborhoods

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So fewer underage drivers and more kids in school, but only after a year’s absence? :thinking:

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Protests, Requests and Suggestions: Citizens React as Bengal Govt Discontinues Kolkata’s Iconic Tram

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2573230/world

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Hostile architecture makes unlivable cities

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Lots of good fact-based looking backward and forward. Well done:

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A question, rather than a link here.
I am a member of a running club. After work, I change and go to wherever the meet up is. When I drive, I can leave my extra gear in the car. When I take the bus, I leave my bag in someone else’s car, because this is the US and most people will drive there every time. We actually call our cars “mobile locker rooms”.
How would this work for a transit centric model? What do you do with your other stuff while you’re doing another activity (work clothes, computer, etc)?

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… you could always bring one of these with you and then lock it to a bike rack

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maybe in your neck o’ the woods…
i was thinking more of a bike locker type of setup, but we’re thinking along the same lines.

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… I mean, really the answer is all of society needs to be organized differently from the ground up, but that’s scary and/or off topic :thinking:

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There’s something to be said for an incremental approach. Gradual change is lasting change.

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Back in the day before fancy bike shelters where one could lock up one’s bike and helmet for the day and shower before changing into work clothes, bike commuters would just leave their work clothes at work at the end of the day. A stack of 5 dress shirts and 2 or 3 ties would get a man through the week and then he could drop the dirty stuff at a nearby cleaners on Friday to be set for Monday again.

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