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by gok 2425 days ago
> “These old cities weren’t made for cars,” Mr. Wagenbuur said.

Kind of the key issue with applying this to new, post-car cities, unfortunately.

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Which largely don't exist. With the exception of like, Phoenix and greater Los Angeles, US cities were also not designed for cars.

Even Western cities that are famous for sprawl like Denver and Houston, their streets were laid down in their modern form in the 1870s, decades before Karl Benz first had the idea of attaching a motor to a wagon.

Cars are recent invaders to our cities, and retrofits were made to accommodate them (thanks in part to massive lobbying from auto makers and hostile takeovers and subsequent shutdowns of private mass transit). There is almost no such thing as a "city designed for cars"