this “idea” came from doing things and seeing what works. My personal observation is whatever you do there’s people who feel it’s too extreme and offensive, that’s the nature of trying to change things.

IDK about community here, don’t really participate, don’t care who leaves or joins. Critical mass as an idea is much older than any “fuckcars” community.

it’s only non-violent until someone in a car drives into it tho (good)

that’s a different setup than the one OpenPassageways described.

pretty sure that’s true everywhere that has signed the vienna convention on road traffic, so like 86 countries

Trapping people in place isn’t ‘protesting’,

Have you ever seen any protests? How do you think they work lol

FFS we close our streets for less important things like construction, marathons, parades.

There’s a good chance the limitless autobahn is actually part of what makes German numbers so good

There’s a chance, but I don’t think you argued why would it be a good chance.

It just requires stricter training and policing, stricter TÜV and for people to always check their mirrors before switching lanes.

Changing lanes and overtaking are always some of the most risky moments. It’s always going to be much much safer if everybody drives the same speed vs. if you have to dodge because people are going 250 km/h for lulz. If you have the stricter training and policing, you still can improve safety by introducing speed limits.

There’s always assholes and they are always making it do bad things, so the distinction isn’t even there. If you don’t plan for assholes using the tool to try and do bad things, you’re making bad technology

I mean it sure looks more better.

Is it actually decent for 2020s? IDK.

1. the signalled pedestrian crossing looks like a waste of time for everybody If this is one way, as the old one was it’s still very wide. Are you building for highway speeds? Same goes for curves.

2. Was the right pedestrian crossing moved away from the desired path?

3. Can we see more towards the bottom of the picture? It gets pretty wide for no obvious reason there. How are cyclists supposed to travel from the right side of the intersection to the left?

4. If those are all one-ways, maybe it’d be a better use of space to give cyclists an separated counterflow lane?

5. What’s up with bike parking that’s separated from the only bike lane with a lawn? That’s like the worst possible place for it, far from every possible destination.

Again, it sure looks nicer, but you kind of have to realize it’ll stay in that shape for 30, 40 maybe 60 years. So maybe build it really really well, this seems half-baked.