I’m pretty sure it’s the stone buildings and street that make it charming. Three feet (one metre) of additional width would not remove the charm and emergency vehicles do not need access to pedestrian malls in the US.
The only thing stopping an American developer from building this in the US is cost. We don’t depreciate buildings over centuries, and neither do the Spanish. New developments in Spain look nothing like this.
Mysogyny in India long predates influencers.
It has been 23 years since the United States last raised its excise tax on gasoline.
Well, fragile masculinity is.
I have no interest in banning all cars. I have an interest in making alternatives to cars lower cost and higher convenience in urban areas while making driving more of a luxury item.
Increase fuel and registration taxes. Charge congestion fees but offer free parking at outermost commuting rail stations. Use the money to fund frequent, rapid public transit, and protected bike lanes. Bring back tram suburbs. Subsidize fares and bike shares so they cost less than $1 a ride. Watch air quality improve, obesity plummet, and disposable income rise in tandum with happiness.
Metro Toronto is a disappointment. It should be have been doubling its subway network every 20 years. Instead it shut down a line, added a few stations on another, and built LRT that’s slower than the bus it replaced.
It needs express subway tracks, GO with 10 minutes headways, and transit oriented development able to house 10k people within a ten minute walk of every GO stop which means zoning for density,
Pay for it by owning the land around stations like HK or Singapore and leasing it to developers for 40 story affordable apartments, increasing the gasoline tax, and putting tolls on the 401 and Gardiner.
Toronto is a transportation nightmare. It’s time to adopt successful models from Asia to make transit fast, convenient, and cheap while making driving fast, convenient, and incredibly expensive. Fill in with protected bike lanes and the city will be liveable and affordable with great air quality
Well, by reading the article I learned he was arrested years ago. I’m not certain we need to hunt him down.