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[–] LordMayor@piefed.social 15 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

How does one take a pleasant photo like this and use it to bitch about cars?

There’s plenty of reasons to bitch about cars. And, the Internet is full of photos of the shitty environment created by cars. This photo doesn’t have to be one of them and it’s fucking stretch to make it about cars.

[–] TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 16 points 4 hours ago

It's not even as though cars are the fundamental issue here as to why this sort of space doesn't exist in the usa

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 hours ago

Because I want us to build things like this again. I live in Canada and we don't have even remotely as many old town areas that offer people-scale streets. I don't know where you live but maybe you live in a much older city so scenes like this are commonplace but they're non existent here outside of maybe Québec City.

Obviously this community is (with all due respect) an echo chamber so it's preaching to the choir but I still think it's important to be reminded of what we could have.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org -1 points 4 hours ago

Did you even read OP's supercomment?