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Originally Posted by bomberjet
My mom made the same comments last night about the bike lanes. "why are they doing that, taking away lanes of traffic?" I love her to death, but I think it's a generational thing.
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I don't get how the boomers still think "The more lanes of traffic, the better." Back in their heyday in the 70s & 80s they started plowing as many vehicles into downtown Winnipeg as possible and knocking down buildings to put up more parking. Not surprisingly this is the same time frame during which downtown Winnipeg emptied out and died. Yet they still don't see the correlation.
Most people over 40 here still seem to think:
"More Lanes + More Parking = Successful City"
Jacobs-esque urbanists would say giving an area over to traffic and parking like that will kill it and the case study of downtown Winnipeg seems to verify that, yet many still don't get it.