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Cake day: August 8th, 2023

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  • If I had a dime for every time somebody made this reply, I’d have a lot of dimes.

    Nobody has ever said that. What people are saying is that the private automobile is the worst way to move masses of people in cities. They command ungodly amounts of space, make everything more expensive thereby, and aren’t even good at moving masses of people.

    You want to increase the capacity of your road? You can:

    • spend millions adding lanes and possibly destroying houses
    • turn a lane into a dedicated bus lane
    • turn a lane into a bike lane
    • hell, pedestrian areas have higher people capacities than car lanes