People In This Group Are Sharing The 30 Best And Worst Examples Of ‘Urban Planning’

At least he looks like he can ride a bike. Boris looks like a circus clown.

markieeeee

Our world needs more of these type of leaders and less of the type we have right now.

Please don’t eat him ppl

I would rather he took a limousine or a helicopter to work if it meant he'd make life here affordable for everybody instead of just the rich and stop gutting our educational systems and healthcare.

Because homeless people where I am are drawn to them as a refuge, which is absolutely fine and understandable. But it's a default homeless shelter where nobody else now wants to go now.

Retired librarian here. Most librarians do not want to be at work at 3:00 am because that kind of schedule is tough on your health and your family. I would have enjoyed it, though. I've loved libraries since I was a kid. My home life was atrocious, so I used to walk to the next city and spend hours in blissful escape at the library. My podunk high school taught me to answer other people's questions, but the library taught me to answer my own. I'll always be grateful to the women who ran it. Oh, and I never had a problem with the homeless people at the library. I was friends with one in particular. The people I had trouble with were the white-collar people who would peruse the reference business materials (Standard and Poor's, etc.), because they tended to steal.

I'd like to see a quiet bar/tea/coffee room with books, snacks and tables where you could have a nice night out with friends, even if it was pay by the hour.

You're not thinking of the library staff safety.

Libraries are a target for the homeless. Libraries don't like that.

Self driving cars will be revolutionary once they are owned by the group instead of the individual. Most cars sit unused over 90% of the time so they just take up unnecessary space waiting for the next time their owner needs them. If you could walk out the door, get into any vehicle on the block, whisked to your destination if near or taken to transfer station (like your rail station) where you could instantly be transferred to a longer haul vehicle. Columbus, Ohio did a pilot project for a neighborhood of 16,000 people (COVID killed it) and it went well. It wasn't perfect but it was a good first real world attempt that showed potential. Biggest hurdle was people said it was convenient, faster, etc but they didn't want to give up owning their own car. Car ownership is a mental thing that represents many emotions to many people.

I'd be happy if the main bus company for my area wasn't owned and operated by two brothers (allegedly and unproven borderline criminals) who *also* happen to own and operate the major taxi firm.

The big 3 car companies lost a monopoly, anti competition lawsuit 100 years ago for buying commuter lines and shutting them down.

"The Big Dig" was the nickname that this project became known as. It was a huge project to move all traffic under the city and make getting to Logan Airport easier. The name came about due to the project taking over 15 years to complete and being way over budget. For years every time you drove into the city you never went the same way twice due to construction and this was in the days before Mapquest and GPS on your phone. Dark days my friends, I still get nervous when I have to drive into the city.

Leslie Knope would be proud

That is incredibly amazing

What is "the big dig"

YES! YES! YES!

Quite a few city government elected officials favor the BIG, BAD, BOOM community projects (stadiums) over common sense, long lasting and community projects that any and everyone could utilize and helps move people around without the large amount of pollution. Imagine the family that feels it needs to buy a $65,000 SUV versus one that costs $35,000. The less expensive SUV seats the same number of passengers, it is as safe, gets better milage and is stylish without the BIG, BAD, BOOM. It's sometimes a "pride" thing and not necessarily always a good return on the initial investment for the community.

YES!

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I mean, I don't like cities doing either. Public transportation would best be left in the hands of the private sector. Governments would fail at managing it due to diseconomies of scale and perverse incentives. The US government also has a horrible historical track record of managing public works well.

Ummm... what happens if it snows? Or if you're physically unable to ride a bike?

YES!