often we are not really aware of it, but: our cities are geared towards cars. the swedish graphic artist Karl Jilg shows in a simple but ingenious illustration how little space in cities often remains for pedestrians.

@lamp @Mabelz but! u can fit more pedestrians/m2 than u can car/m2

@arcade but do we need to? for more people or for smaller roads and larger buildings?

@lamp i say we build more bike stuff, more human friendly streets, like look at basically all of europe, especially the netherlands. also public transit ofc

@arcade
Not really a lot of bike stuff in Europe, in certain countries sure
Netherlands is a good example

In the rest of Europe it's difficult to find good biking lanes
@lamp

@rastinza @lamp huh yeah, I guess I'm just used to living in large European cities.

Follow

@arcade
I mean, even large European cities with good biking facilities don't appear so many to me.
I'll go through some cities I visited
Amsterdam: Amazing
Berlin: didn't notice a lot, but not too bad overall
Stuttgart: not much
Madrid: not very good
Rome: ahahaha no, kill yourself
Milano: no
Ljubljana: quite good
Warsaw: decent at least in the center
Zagreb: No
Bordeaux: it had some biking lanes in the center
Barcelona: quite nice
@lamp

@rastinza @lamp touché. My point of reference is American suburbia so basically anything feels like a ton. Also those cities, for the most part, are really walkable, even if you can't bike. And a lot of them have amazing public transit (Stuttgart my beloved)

Sign in to participate in the conversation
CleverLibre Social

CleverLibre Social is an inclusive social instance for open discussion, learning, and community.
All cultures welcome.
Hate speech and harassment strictly forbidden.