NomNom@feddit.uk to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 6 days agoPoliticians in Ireland's second largest city want to convert green areas into parking spaces to ease social tensionswww.irishexaminer.comexternal-linkmessage-square16linkfedilinkarrow-up146arrow-down10
arrow-up146arrow-down1external-linkPoliticians in Ireland's second largest city want to convert green areas into parking spaces to ease social tensionswww.irishexaminer.comNomNom@feddit.uk to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square16linkfedilink
minus-squarebirdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·6 days agoEw, no thanks. Give good public transit, bicycle lanes, and more greenery instead!
minus-squarevaryingExpertise@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 days agoNow make the people that actually live there have the same opinion and you’ve worked a political and sociological miracle.
minus-squarebirdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoMake them experience actual good bicycle lane design, and experience almost being driven over by a car.
minus-squarevaryingExpertise@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoThat is an “if everybody just did $THING” solution and while those usually sound lovely they do not work.
minus-squarebirdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoHave you got a different suggestion that will “work”?
minus-squarevaryingExpertise@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-25 days agoIf it were that obvious, it would probably be implemented already.
Ew, no thanks. Give good public transit, bicycle lanes, and more greenery instead!
Now make the people that actually live there have the same opinion and you’ve worked a political and sociological miracle.
Make them experience actual good bicycle lane design, and experience almost being driven over by a car.
That is an “if everybody just did $THING” solution and while those usually sound lovely they do not work.
Have you got a different suggestion that will “work”?
If it were that obvious, it would probably be implemented already.