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.
This must make the car brains incredibly mad. I love it.
I don’t really assume so. The article from reasonably neutral Yle mentions nothing about local pushback (edit: see below; they do talk about debate, and I still don’t think it’s that major), and I really doubt American carbrains are reading – let alone caring about – Yle or the Helsinki Times.
I know what community and year we’re in, but can’t we just celebrate one nice thing without warping it into an attack on an imagined adversary, à la “I’ll bet the libs are fucking pissed over this”? Nice things can just be nice things sometimes.
Unfortunately we have a plenty of domestic carbrains here in Finland too.
Oh, no, I figured that; that’s why I mentioned local first. I figured American carbrains would be the next-most-likely (albeit distantly) to care as a group, e.g. if Fox News decided that it was time to make it the newest attraction in their carbrain haunted house.
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.
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.
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.
Top tip for when a carbrain is complaining about public transportation infrastructure projects: ask them why are they complaining, this would only mean less people on the roads in front of them going 5km/h below the limit.
Absolutely!
The bridge cost a bit over 300 millions, but the car brains are super angry that they “built a bridge for bicycles and that bridge cost one BILLION euros!”
It’s really crazy watching the argumentation! There’s nowhere for the cars to go in the downtown end of the bridge – the traffic there would turn into an absolute porridge.