• Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Coincidentally it is the same space that is used by bikes. Or does the artist picture them as combat-biking on the pavement?

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      11 months ago

      Bikes take much less space and they will go around people, it’s not uncommon for roads to be shared for bikes and pedestrians at the same time. On the other hand you risk getting hit by a car if you walk into the streets, thus the metaphor of falling down a chasm.

  • Smoogs@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Also a depiction of how much of that space is actually paid for by car owners with registration fees. Someone has to pay the road fees to maintain all that walking space too.

    Also to consider that the way the shops are build like that is because of cars not foot traffic. If it were a walking space that was explicitly built for walking and then was actually ‘surrendered’ to cars it would have been built quite differently to begin with. So it is far from accurate.

  • DreamButt@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    This has circled around the internet for years now. I remember the last time I saw it people were losing their minds over how “reductive” it was. Blew me away