The nearly 1,200-metre bridge is said to be the longest bridge in the world that will exclusively serve pedestrians, cyclists and trams.
The nearly 1,200-metre bridge is said to be the longest bridge in the world that will exclusively serve pedestrians, cyclists and trams.
He puts it very politely but you can bet your ass the car brains kicked up a huge stink over this. Every tiny bit of progress towards more human centric city planning is always vehemently opposed by vested interests that weaponise the stupidity and resistance to change of “conservatives”. Any progress is hard won and yes I’ll keep calling out the idiots who resist it.
Sorry, I must’ve forgotten that paragraph while I was replying. My understanding having read about this a couple years back is that controversy was pretty frontloaded (“originally controversial”) and that the debate did, like in most any large infrastructure project, continue for years after. That is, I think drivers care and are disappointed about this but aren’t losing their minds over it.
Even beside that, if every carbrain across Helsinki were coping and seething right now, I think my overall point stands that turning every victory for good into a focus on how pissed “the enemy” must surely be right now isn’t at all healthy or productive.
Finland doesn’t have a domestic car industry, so the push back was probably quite limited
I wish this was a thing. But NZ doesnt either and we’re one of the worst car brained countries there are.