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A ban on autos? Major cities consider going carless
Cnbc ^
| Sunday, 26 Jan 2014
| Paul A Eisenstein
Posted on 01/27/2014 3:58:22 PM PST by gooblah
home of the high-speed autobahn, is perhaps one of the few countries that has had as intense a love affair with the automobile as the U.S. But in an effort to go green, the country's second-largest city is studying ways to eliminate cars by 2034.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: germany; hamburg; stupidpeople
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posted on
01/27/2014 3:58:22 PM PST
by
gooblah
To: gooblah
A very unhelpful excerpt.
It might be nice to have the city/cities identified.
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posted on
01/27/2014 4:01:49 PM PST
by
MortMan
(Is a delayed shower a "stay of exablution"?)
To: gooblah
The Powers That Be continue their war against human liberty and choice.
The War Against the Car (against drivers, really).
To: gooblah
This is the Left's Holy Grail. They despise the automobile because it means freedom.
Guess I'll be taking my dirt bike to work in -6 degree weather tomorrow.
To: gooblah
No problem. After the government destroys the economy, nobody will be able to afford cars. Except for party bosses and commisars.
To: gooblah
Ban government not autos!
To: gooblah
They’re talking about Germany and the UK, as far as I could see.
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posted on
01/27/2014 4:06:04 PM PST
by
Steely Tom
(If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
To: gooblah
FYI, urban planners <
sic> and the architectural crowd (remember, many of the Bauhaus people were Socialists) have hated cars with a purple passion for at least 50 years ..... I picked up an urban-planning magazine out of curiosity in 1964, and I was surprised by the venomousness about "strip" development and the ubiquity of cars and arrangments for their parking and storage.
Those people institutionally and intestinally hate automobiles ..... and, I gradually figured out, they hate the freedom and mobility that cars afford people, to escape the little cages the Bauhouse boys would have us living in, like the 500-to-700-square-foot rat cages LeCorbusier was designing for French peasants back in the 20's. How good of them to think of us.....
To: plainshame
Let’s just start with government autos.
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posted on
01/27/2014 4:06:47 PM PST
by
shineon
(.)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Guess I'll be taking my dirt bike to work in -6 degree weather tomorrow. What, and pollute the pristine atmosphere? Baby killer!! Take the train, be redeemed!
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To: gooblah
Major cities consider going carless Sounds OK to me.
I can't foresee any possible need to go into one of those filthy cesspools, ever again in my life.
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posted on
01/27/2014 4:09:15 PM PST
by
ROCKLOBSTER
(Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
To: gooblah
Fine, more gas for me and my gas guzzler.
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posted on
01/27/2014 4:09:26 PM PST
by
Huskrrrr
To: gooblah
Germany is half the size of Texas with 5 times as many people and a good public transportation system. Austin, TX, treehugger headquarters, can’t get people to ride the new $$$$$ rail transportation. What might work in Hamburg ain’t no way gonna work in Texas.
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posted on
01/27/2014 4:11:38 PM PST
by
bgill
To: gooblah
When William F. Buckley ran for Mayor of New York in 1965, this was one of his suggestions for Manhattan.
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posted on
01/27/2014 4:12:44 PM PST
by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
To: bgill
My first car was a ‘68 VW bus, bought while I was playing Army in Germany.
You can keep the trains, there or here.
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posted on
01/27/2014 4:14:41 PM PST
by
benewton
To: gooblah
Going green." Is that anything like "Soylent Green"? Words like "green" and especially "sustainable" (Agenda 21 anyone?) will become used more and more by both do-gooders and power hungry tyrants to try to force more government controls and less freedom here and around the world.
Of course, God made the earth utterly "sustainable" and man occupies a very small faction of the planet. "Sustainability" is a myth but no matter - it will be driven into the psyche of people the way "discrimination" has - all to weaken people's resolve to keep their individual freedom.
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posted on
01/27/2014 4:16:16 PM PST
by
PapaNew
To: bgill
The ONLY people in LA who take mass transit are the indigent, welfare peeps and all around bad scene people.
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posted on
01/27/2014 4:16:51 PM PST
by
BunnySlippers
(I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: lentulusgracchus
To: BunnySlippers
The ONLY people in LA who take mass transit are the indigent, welfare peeps and all around bad scene people.
Gees, no need to repeat yourself.
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posted on
01/27/2014 4:20:26 PM PST
by
Veggie Todd
(I don't always talk to Obama voters, but when I do I ask for Large Fries.)
To: gooblah
No personal transportation - Makes it easier to keep the indentured servants on the plantation and under control.
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posted on
01/27/2014 4:21:20 PM PST
by
Iron Munro
("Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences." - Robert Louis Stevenson)
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