NomNom@feddit.uk to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · edit-27 days agoPoliticians in Ireland's second largest city want to convert green areas into parking spaces to ease social tensionswww.irishexaminer.comexternal-linkmessage-square16linkfedilinkarrow-up146
arrow-up146external-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 · edit-27 days agomessage-square16linkfedilink
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-26 days agoIf it were that obvious, it would probably be implemented already.
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.