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[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

By the time all these NYC mayors are done there's not going to be any room for pedestrians on the streets

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

It's going to blow your mind when you realize city streets used to be fully pedestrianised before the car took that away from pedestrians.

Things like "sidewalks" were not a thing before the auto-industry. The street was the walkway. The public was essentially brainwashed on a massive scale with propaganda to not "jaywalk", and to always use sides of the street, or what become know as the "sidewalk".