NomNom@feddit.ukBanned to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 2 months 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.ukBanned to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square16linkfedilink
minus-squarebirdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·2 months agoEw, no thanks. Give good public transit, bicycle lanes, and more greenery instead!
minus-squarevaryingExpertise@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months 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-up1·2 months agoMake them experience actual good bicycle lane design, and experience almost being driven over by a car.
minus-squarevaryingExpertise@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoThat is an “if everybody just did $THING” solution and while those usually sound lovely they do not work.
minus-squarebirdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoHave you got a different suggestion that will “work”?
minus-squarevaryingExpertise@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 months 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.