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[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 193 points 7 months ago

and we’ve circled back to the missing third place – libraries as community centers, family friendly pubs and bars, coffee shops that don’t require buying half the menu to just hang out, walkable (and bikable) cities where people can go for an evening stroll without being afraid of being run over …

[-] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 39 points 7 months ago

I want this so bad. Why can't the car loving suburbanites who visit Europe and love it just get on board?

Cars are not freedom, if anything they take it away while making life miserable for everyone.

Cars aren't good and I'd like to have less of them... but they're not responsible for all that ails us.

[-] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 10 points 7 months ago

Yes ! A thousand time yes !

The library are the last third places publicly accessible.

What we need is more third places where we can just meet other people, neighbors without the expectation to spend money.

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago
[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

Precisely, like the park.

[-] metalsonic00@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago
[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Some parks don't close at all

I'm not sure I've ever seen a closed park in Australia. Maybe I don't get out much though.

How do you close a park? Are the parks fenced/gated?

[-] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

Yep.

Or you put up signs and pay security/police/bylaw officers to patrol.

[-] cqthca@reddthat.com 1 points 7 months ago

our mid-sized town put in the charter that bicycling and walking facilitation be funded. And boy-howdy did they do it! I can walk on sidewalks now instead of the busy roads. There is even a six mile asphalt walking trail now. Gotta go to the meetings, organize, and put pressure on these city council people. Most are inactive by the look of them.

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