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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: germany; hamburg; stupidpeople
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1 posted on 01/27/2014 3:58:22 PM PST by gooblah
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To: gooblah

A very unhelpful excerpt.

It might be nice to have the city/cities identified.


2 posted on 01/27/2014 4:01:49 PM PST by MortMan (Is a delayed shower a "stay of exablution"?)
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To: gooblah
The Powers That Be continue their war against human liberty and choice.

The War Against the Car (against drivers, really).

3 posted on 01/27/2014 4:01:50 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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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.

4 posted on 01/27/2014 4:02:02 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (15 years of FReeping! Congratulations EEE!!)
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To: gooblah

No problem. After the government destroys the economy, nobody will be able to afford cars. Except for party bosses and commisars.


5 posted on 01/27/2014 4:02:48 PM PST by all the best (`~!)
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To: gooblah

Ban government not autos!


6 posted on 01/27/2014 4:04:55 PM PST by plainshame
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To: gooblah

They’re talking about Germany and the UK, as far as I could see.


7 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.)
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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.....

8 posted on 01/27/2014 4:06:13 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: plainshame

Let’s just start with government autos.


9 posted on 01/27/2014 4:06:47 PM PST by shineon (.)
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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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10 posted on 01/27/2014 4:07:45 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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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.

11 posted on 01/27/2014 4:09:15 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: gooblah

Fine, more gas for me and my gas guzzler.


12 posted on 01/27/2014 4:09:26 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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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.


13 posted on 01/27/2014 4:11:38 PM PST by bgill
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To: gooblah

When William F. Buckley ran for Mayor of New York in 1965, this was one of his suggestions for Manhattan.


14 posted on 01/27/2014 4:12:44 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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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.


15 posted on 01/27/2014 4:14:41 PM PST by benewton
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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.

16 posted on 01/27/2014 4:16:16 PM PST by PapaNew
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To: bgill

The ONLY people in LA who take mass transit are the indigent, welfare peeps and all around bad scene people.


17 posted on 01/27/2014 4:16:51 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: lentulusgracchus

ROFL


18 posted on 01/27/2014 4:19:17 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (15 years of FReeping! Congratulations EEE!!)
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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.

19 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.)
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To: gooblah

No personal transportation - Makes it easier to keep the indentured servants on the plantation and under control.


20 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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