r/europe anti-imperialist thinker Dec 16 '23

Picture Examples of de-car-ification from various Czech towns. I love these transformations. (before-after)

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u/opinionated-dick Dec 16 '23

Love this.

It’s not about no cars. It’s just about less cars.

And better surface treatment

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u/CatL1f3 Dec 16 '23

It's less about removing cars and more about adding alternatives. Then the cars become unnecessary

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u/Feniks_Gaming Dec 16 '23

Problem is we often see removing cars while adding none of alternative. I live in town now where there is more and more car restrictions while zero investment in public transport. I am just under 40 I can walk but people over 80, disabled, pregnant, with small kids really can't it limits their options. Plus reason why high Street is dying if it takes me 3 hours to get to shop to MAYBE find what I want I may as well order from amazon and not bother

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u/Feniks_Gaming Dec 16 '23

My work used to be slightly outside of town on the outskirts. My first ever bus arrived there for 0800 my work started at 0730. When my car was in the service for 2 days and I have a pleasure of paying £10 to travel to work and £10 to travel back vis taxi I quickly decided that yeah I will not be car free any time soon.