Tinker ☀️Urban Infrastructure in Barcelona, Spain.
Video credit: beteve.cat
#solarPunk #transit #publicTransit #publicTransportation #trains
Jamison Alexander@tinker This is beautiful! Every city should look like this or at least have areas that look like this!
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Mark T. Tomczak@mark - Nope. Not AI either. This video is real.
JerseyBlue@tinker We can’t have that in the US because the capitalists have stamped out virtually every vestige of the civic realm.
@dnelson - We'll just have to claw it back.
Gabriel Adrian Samfira
Robin Barton@tinker Why can't Canada have nice things like this?
@Robo105 - Coming from the US, it's even less likely here. That said, goals. Absolute goals. We can build towards this.
Christopher 
@Christopher @tinker Too many vested interests are determined to prevent us from getting a decent society. Canada is good despite the elites but it could be great
I'm going from memory, this was from the end of the David Miller era (long time ago now), but I remembered their argument was they wanted to use the LRT lanes as a way to bypass traffic in emergencies, because passenger vehicles wouldn't be able to move aside on what remained of the roadway.
Could have been where the "war on cars" started? Again, long time ago now
Cascadia Secession Zone@tinker I love that they leave the grass overgrown on the sides, my first thought was "good for the bees!"
@bajabanjo @tinker it's a new thing across the EU I think. The local administration started doing it in my home town in Romania as well. They just trim the grass close to the sides of the sidewalk so it doesn't creep on the pavement, but they leave it overgrown otherwise. They say it's to encourage biodiversity.
@gabriel @tinker well it's great!
In a good social media world, people who make design decisions in city planning like this would all have feeds that showcase what other people are doing in other places around the world. Shovel ready ideas as @pluralistic says
cc @seabikeblog @citynerd any idea who's likely responsible for this type of planning in #Seattle?
Patrick@tinker and I hear everyone in Germany say: „that won’t be possible here“. We stopped believing.
Matty Roses@tinker I live not far from that part of Diaganol! It's amazing!
Wokerati@tinker I wish they could spruce up the Metrolink lines in Manchester like this. It would certainly make Piccadilly Gardens look less like a concrete Dystopia.
Doreen32128 ready to rumble!@tinker I will be in Barcelona in early May! Can’t wait.
Johns@tinker Don't go thinking the whole city is like this!
That's a section, a few streets, just all.
BCN is not that big a city compared to some other big cities, but like all, different neighbourhoods have a complete different look and feel
@Johns_priv - Of course.
But we can celebrate the sections that are nice with the hope and goals that what works in those sections can be applied more broadly, both in BCN and more broadly in the world.
T.A. Walker@tinker My daily reminder that the city I live near (which I still like), could be so much better… 🙏🏻 (I wish we had trams, for one 🚉)
Urix Turing@tinker as a native, reactions to this video are fun 😂
@urixturing - Everyone is jealous, envious, and in awe 😂
Xavier Satorra@tinker
This image of a tram in Barcelona is not representative of the city.
Despite some improvements in mobility (+ bicycle lanes and extension of the existing tramway line), Barcelona has a lot of air pollution, noise, social inequalities (renting and/or buying flats at abusive prices), to mention just a few.
High population density and excessive tourism saturate coexistence.
Greetings,
PS: Beteve is the official TV channel of Barcelona City Council.
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@[email protected] - Of course. But we can celebrate the sections that are nice with the hope and goals that what works in those sections can be applied more broadly, both in BCN and more broadly in the world.
DoomsdaysCW@tinker Tagging for #SolarPunkSunday! Wow! 🍃 💚 🌞
Mr Suite-dé-Sour@tinker hmm .. wonderin' if waterin' all that greenery is an issue .. ❓️🤫