[domeika]

In New York, a two-mile stretch of the FDR Drive parkway is torn down to open lower Manhattan for parks and plazas, and bicyclists are given their own lane on the Brooklyn Bridge

The FDR parkway has a speed limit of what? 40 mph? Why not go down to zero then. I mean it's not like it's tough to get around NY right? And to give a lane on a busy bridge to bicycles? That makes sense right? I wonder if people not being to get from A to B, or goods and services not being able to get from A to B figures into their delusional uptopia?

An elevated highway in Guangzhou, China, is transformed into a pedestrian promenade, and rooftops are linked by raised walkways and bikeways.

Build an elevated highway, then turn it into a walking path. Now that makes fiscal sense. Once again, the whole concept of commerce and what it requires to operate, like moving stuff from A to B eludes these whackos. And rooftop walkways? In China? They had better be made of rubber to withstand the many earthquakes they experience there.

In Jakarta, Indonesia, traditional bike taxis called becaks are re-engineered to be lighter and easier to steer.

First off, what this person is saying is that someone (but not them) will have to re-engineer those little becaks to be easy to use so that the Indonesians don't get all uppity and start driving cars. Funny that the same people that, on one hand, demand an end to world poverty (on someone else's dime of course), and then use the other hand to try and smack down any kind of progress that might actually end said poverty.

"We hired 10 architects from cities all over the world to help us imagine what their cities might look like in 2030 if we made the cities more human scale, more environmentally sustainable," said Walter Hook, the executive director of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, which organized the exhibit with funding from the San Francisco-based ClimateWorks Foundation.

Curious how they cite what positions he (Walter Hook) holds but fail to report that he is nothing but an artist from Montana with no sense of business acumen or even slight grasp of reality.

"We're essentially trying to send the message that if cities don't move in this direction we're going to be faced with cataclysmic climate change, because in the developing world the use of private automobiles is escalating at double-digit rates," Hook said.

So....people in the developing world should be deprived of transportation because in this inept fool's opinion his ideas and ideals and those of his delusional ilk should trump progress and the needs and want of millions because they know better right? I guess he didn't get the memo that "climate change" pseudo-science was exposed for the fraud that it is.

In the township of Soweto, in Johannesburg, current photos show low-rise housing and not much else. But the Soweto of 2030 is bustling with markets and public spaces.
"You weren't allowed to open shops, traditionally, under apartheid," Hook said. "So what we've done is we've sort of reimagined it as a kind of new town ... where people could actually work and shop in downtown Soweto."

Hold on there chief. Didn't aparteid end years ago? If people were going to work and shop there, they'd already be doing it by now.

The Utopian vision of lower Manhattan shows pedestrians, bicycles and very few cars. Architect Michael Sorkin, who designed the New York piece of the exhibit, said he thinks it's "completely feasible."
"The streets were laid out by the Dutch in a fundamentally medieval pattern," he said. "They're not made for cars."

Go right ahead. Of course the menu's in those trendy restaurants might get awful short due to the fact that food can't be delivered. But hey, look at all the money you'll save by not being able to buy expensive clothes and such when you favorite boutiques are empty as well.

In conclusion:
I have an idea....why don't the liberals just focus on Detroit since they f*cked that up beyond repair years ago with their vision. There aren't many cars there now because of it, and all the demolition they would need to do for their current flavor of utopian vision is already well underway.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Big beehives full of complacent drones! Hell, big cities don't work very well as it is, what will they have to put in the water to keep the inmates from eating each other?

"I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get plied upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe."

"I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere; and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice."

Thomas Jefferson

[VRW Conspirator]

I want to sing.

[prisoner6]

But...will there be Cash Cab?

prisoner6

[homegroan]

my nephew: “how do they gets the food and milk and medicines? they comes in the big loud truck auntie, don’t they?”

MY NEPHEW...6 years old!!

[jimt]

Your commentary on this utopian scheme is spot on.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“I have an idea....why don’t the liberals just focus on Detroit since they f*cked that up beyond repair years ago with their vision. There aren’t many cars there now because of it, and all the demolition they would need to do for their current flavor of utopian vision is already well underway.”

But think of how nice the parks will be. Midnight basketball with nice eco-friendly lighting and recycled sportcourts. And the jobs it will create! Police departments will hire more cops for the third shift.

[MeSpikeLibs]

Because I would really want to ride my bike to work in January. These people need to get off of the drugs.

[MeSpikeLibs]

Because I would really want to ride my bike to work in January. These people need to get off of the drugs.

[The Great RJ]

Do these predictions show the masses shivering or sweltering in their darkened homes waiting for their daily ration of electricity, the fetid smells emanating from thousands of eco-friendly composting toilets or the power elites still living in their mansions and being chauffeured in limos?

[gigster]

My Utopia contains no Leftists.

[DustyMoment]

Imagine no cars - or fewer, anyway. In New York, a two-mile stretch of the FDR Drive parkway is torn down to open lower Manhattan for parks and plazas, and bicyclists are given their own lane on the Brooklyn Bridge. An elevated highway in Guangzhou, China, is transformed into a pedestrian promenade, and rooftops are linked by raised walkways and bikeways. In Jakarta, Indonesia, traditional bike taxis called becaks are re-engineered to be lighter and easier to steer.

Woohoo, living in the 10th Century!!! Can't wait for the environazis to discover how much they are going to HATE their own "utopian" dream!!

IDIOTS!!!

[bill1952]

It would be much easier to tear the entire fetid cesspool down and replace it with a very nice eco-friendly field of some good low carbon emitting foliage, like clover.

They could call it Cloverfield instead of Detroit.

[Oratam]

A huge “die-off” in the human population is obviously part of their plan. I suspect the magic number is 1.5 billion. That’s a global population of 1.5 billion so about 5 billion of us have to go.

[Reeses]

Leftists only make sense when you uncloak their real motivation: envy. Leftists always disguise their true motivation because envy is not socially acceptable. They envy their neighbors newer and more expensive cars. Envy is not about having what others have but denying others what they have. Many leftists could afford a newer more expensive car than their neighbors, but instead they prefer to fight to take away their neighbors cars. But their dream of banning the automobile will not bring them happiness. Freed of car payments, richer neighbors will just sink their money into incredibly expensive bicycles that will infuriate leftists even more.

Humans did not evolve to live in ant hills. Living in close proximity to so many others with more wealth and status causes intense feelings of envy. It's why city dwellers are leftists, and country dwellers couldn't give a damn about their neighbors new car sitting a mile away.

[Rappini]

The good news is that I’ll be getting used to some dirt by then.