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A New Jersey city that limited street parking hasn’t had a traffic death in 7 years (apnews.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/goodnewseveryone
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Hoboken, New Jersey, recently marked seven consecutive years without a traffic death. Officials there credit their decision to take away some street parking, a change that increases visibility for motorists, cyclists and pedestrians.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I’ve used the best public transit in the US, I have zero faith that would work out well

we need a massive design overhall as well and nonidea how’d we do that in an existing city

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Stockholm tunneled under their 500-year-old city for a subway system. 500 years is older than America.

It could go very well.