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Here's what a Brazilian restaurant owner did after city hall banned sidewalk patio tables (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
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I love malicious compliance with car-centric rules 😎

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[–] 68 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Well… there’s two sides to this. The sidewalk there looks narrow. Banning tables might have been a measure to make walking easier and remove cars.

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  • [–] 91 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Or you could turn that parking spot on a nice service area. As it is done in many countries now. We need to stop giving that much space to cars and trucks

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    And if we do, charge for parking. Lots of charging.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Even then its renting out public space. Imo just let the restaurants rent it for the same rate. Why do we need to reserve like 40% of our public spaces for car owners?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Pushing for paid parking will help to move in the right direction. The funding can help to improve and install walking / biking infrastructure and public transit. It can be a deterrent to car drivers, potentially causing them to opt into using those other services. As well as mitigate traffic and shift congestion.

    Paid parking is always better for the anti car movement than free parking. It's a means to an end of car culture.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Or you just make the street for humans, and with that have enough space for sidewalk patio tables and people to walk and cycle through

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yeah, I’m sure that municipality has the cash lying around to just redesign all their streets. Why didn’t they think of that?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Redesigning streets for humans actually is an investment that will pay for itself in time. You could tax the restaurants for the patios, for example.

    Since you take away heavy car traffic, the street will need less maintenance

    Now that your street is nicely walkable, put some trees in, make it look nice, have restaurant and bar patios out, and you'll have much,uchore people visiting, making restaurants earn higher profits, making then also pay more taxes, again.

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