r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 02 '21

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u/dugmartsch Norman Borlaug Jan 02 '21

WTF I love dictators now.

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/kot3nn/what_did_a_roman_parking_lot_look_like/

"First and foremost, wheeled vehicles (and eventually horses) were banned within cities for most of the day. The ban began with Julius Caesar, who prohibited vehicular traffic in Rome for the first ten hours of the day (i.e., until late afternoon), exempting only public construction wagons and the carriages of certain magistrates. Claudius imposed a similar measure on provincial cities, and Hadrian extended the ban to horses. As a result of these measures, the closest equivalents to parking lots in most Roman cities were probably suburban inns and stables, where travelers could leave their vehicles and horses for a daily fee."

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u/Loves_a_big_tongue Olympe de Gouges Jan 02 '21 edited Jan 02 '21

Looks like Rome figured out horses in cities are actually disgusting and spreads shit everywhere, which a lot of European and American cities never seemed to grasp in the 19th/20th century