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If your business is accessible to pedestrians, you will make more money.
Next you will be telling me cars don't have wallets and can't go through doors
Every once in awhile on the news you'll see a car that drove straight through a glass shop window front. Like the driver mixed up forward/reverse/gas/break.
ITT we stan bollards
Glad I went to business school for 4 years to figure that one out!
In the last city I lives in they transformed on of the major busy streets that had a lot of shops into a pedestrian zone. Businesses fought it kicking and screaming. Reading the local news and online forums you'd think that the main customer base for all businesses in the inner city were 90year olds with multiple hip surgeries who will not come anymore if they can't park right in front of the shop. Well. The street was transformed, people got suspiciously quiet about the mass extinction of local businesses that was about to happen and all the restaurants and cafes need reservations now where before you could just walk in even on a Saturday afternoon and get a table. Some of the shops need security now to regulate the flow of people. But of course you want read any articles on local news about it.
We have been surround by cars for so long we have forgotten how amazing pedestrianized streets are.
So much so we fight tooth and nail to keep the cars, but once the street is transformed to something like above we absolutely love it and can't see life any other way.
Not to mention pedestrianized streets like these do so much better economically.
So much so we fight tooth and nail to keep the cars, but once the street is transformed to something like above we absolutely love it and can’t see life any other way.
Things like this support my argument that conservatives are in a very fundamental way stupid. They don't have good reasons. They just don't want change for childish emotional reasons.
Business always kicks and screams at any change because what's working for them now is working. The new thing feels like change for the sake of change.
Businesses can't lead towards a future because it will never be anything other than more of the same. Like now and how it it's practically the same social issue conversations as 100 years ago. Business only advances technology - it doesn't improve life for people.
I think this isn't necessarily a fight with local businesses, because they stand to win a lot from these efforts. The whole point is to strengthen proximity, so that people focus their lives in a close community - including their shopping.
This is a proxy war by large capitals and interests, who stand to lose massively in terms of influence and revenue if people actually go back to living as communities...
Business always kicks and screams at any change because capitalism supports fascism.
Nah, that's just how they get away with kicking and screaming at every change.
my biggest regret in life is leaving Barcelona when I was 18, grew up there and took it for granted.
It's not too late to return!
it is for me. I have kids in Mi and my abusive ex would let them leave. if I get full custody (in fighting for that, she is gaslighting them and alienating them) I would leave in a heartbeat.
Never mind, Tarragona is better anyway :-P
both are better than wherever I ended up in.
Sorry to hear that, I hope you find your way to a better place!
nah, hoping is useless, I'm organizing and fighting to make the place I'm stuck in a better place.
Ok, well I hope that works for you, then!
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