Ghent is becoming a battleground. Belgium is a car loving country with 60 cars per 100 inhabitants. But city centers were originally not designed for cars, but than later more designed for cars as time goes on. Ghent is crazy, its historic centre has lots of narrow curvy roads. Impossible for cars. But than around it you have large ringroads with miltiple lanes of cars. The city council is now trying to get the historic centre back for people, not cars. But convincing people of this while everything outside the historic centre is designed for cars is a big ask! Lets see who wins!
seems easy. drive your car to/from/around Ghent for travel/commute but if you want to go to the center, park somewhere outside and switch transport to bike/bus/etc.
or parking underground/multilevel. or, in the case of this little street there is a parking lot at one end of it: "goo.gl/maps/pnWLUjfb6QzeGmGL9 Zoom out to see the changes"
The man ( Filip Watteeuw) is a true dictator in his work. A man who doesn't care about elders( no money is just an issue) just doesn't care about real life and pushes everything true to get his vision to work. Smother the people and push through( on advice committees he refuses to answer/removes microphones when questions are getting hard ) This vision is his and political agenda, this, combined with poor resistance from left-wing and center-right politicians, makes this man Very dangerous. All for the Bicycle becomes All against the Car. A concerning point is the profit of the extreme right-wing ...they will profit from it in 2024 at the next election.
The difference between European and the north American mindset: cars belong in the street they are the owner of it. Europeans think more what is happening on those streets. Sure goods need to be transported from a to b, but how and when makes it the most sense.
Ghent is becoming a battleground. Belgium is a car loving country with 60 cars per 100 inhabitants. But city centers were originally not designed for cars, but than later more designed for cars as time goes on. Ghent is crazy, its historic centre has lots of narrow curvy roads. Impossible for cars. But than around it you have large ringroads with miltiple lanes of cars. The city council is now trying to get the historic centre back for people, not cars. But convincing people of this while everything outside the historic centre is designed for cars is a big ask! Lets see who wins!
seems easy. drive your car to/from/around Ghent for travel/commute but if you want to go to the center, park somewhere outside and switch transport to bike/bus/etc.
or parking underground/multilevel. or, in the case of this little street there is a parking lot at one end of it: "goo.gl/maps/pnWLUjfb6QzeGmGL9 Zoom out to see the changes"
Like Park(ing) Day... for months (;-) Large-scale tactical urbanism (;-)
Give the street back to the people, he nailed it.
The man ( Filip Watteeuw) is a true dictator in his work. A man who doesn't care about elders( no money is just an issue) just doesn't care about real life and pushes everything true to get his vision to work. Smother the people and push through( on advice committees he refuses to answer/removes microphones when questions are getting hard ) This vision is his and political agenda, this, combined with poor resistance from left-wing and center-right politicians, makes this man Very dangerous. All for the Bicycle becomes All against the Car. A concerning point is the profit of the extreme right-wing ...they will profit from it in 2024 at the next election.
POLITICAL crap !!
The difference between European and the north American mindset: cars belong in the street they are the owner of it. Europeans think more what is happening on those streets. Sure goods need to be transported from a to b, but how and when makes it the most sense.