No Vehicles In The Park
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No Vehicles In The Park
This is the first and most important test of alternative values. Can you take your own exit, and stay on the road. If the answer is no, there's no there there.
Reggie James • SAVE THE INTERNET
Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)
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parking is not as simple as having a resource (spots) and maximizing its utilization (occupancy). Parking is also a process—an optimal stopping problem—and it’s one that consumes attention, time, and fuel, and generates both pollution and congestion.
Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths • Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Vehicles are simple compared to political philosophies. They're also mostly context-free; understanding a political tweet might require reading an entire thread, together with a history book. I know of at least one case where someone interpreted the sending of certain flowers as a death threat (and I'm not entirely sure, in the context of that rela... See more
No Vehicles In The Park
Applied to traffic problems, the loss of street capacity to curb-parked cars became "the parking evil."
Peter D. Norton • Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)
Cars can thus monopolize traffic. They can shape a city into their image–practically ruling out locomotion on foot or by bicycle in Los Angeles. They can eliminate river traffic in Thailand.