149
You'd think the absurdity of cars would resonate with Italians.
The article about the banning of the bicycles in the city centre: https://www.ilpost.it/2026/08/10/como-divieto-bici-centro-storico-rapinese-sindaco-investito/
Decision taken after being hit by a bicycle...
He surely would ban cars, if ever involved in one of the much more frequent car accidents, would he? Would he?!
Bicycles need dedicated roads without cars.
Mixed pedestrian and bicycle paths are dumb. It's illegal where I live to ride a bicycle on a sidewalk, for good reason.
He's alive ain't he.
Yeah, we need to ensure no more bikes hit people, they're surviving instead of dying by 2-ton metal box!
Make Accidents Fatal Again
If they don't have enough room for cars, then they should ban cars.
Seems like some context is important here … they have an elementary school with unused floors and are trying to consolidate another school into that.
That doesn’t sound as bad, but admittedly I only translated the first few paragraphs, and don’t know the rest of the story
The unused one has been deemed not up to snuff by the courts while the one they want to demolish is currently in use and has been recently improved (accessibility for disabled people things) using EU funds. Plus there's the whole problem that como does have traffic problems and can't easily build more roads or larger one (ancient city with mountains on one side and the lake on the other) so building more parking would bring more cars in an already congested situation.
disabled things
I think you’re supposed to call them people.
Thanks, fixed
Thanks for the additional context
You should have,the context is fabricated
What no only Americans have car brains
Have you never met an Italian? Lots of them are gross conspicuous consumers
Nothing like good ol world stereotyping
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2026
149 points (100.0% liked)
Fuck Cars
16633 readers
1547 users here now
A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let's explore the bad world of Cars!
Rules
1. Be Civil
You may not agree on ideas, but please do not be needlessly rude or insulting to other people in this community.
2. No hate speech
Don't discriminate or disparage people on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexuality.
3. Don't harass people
Don't follow people you disagree with into multiple threads or into PMs to insult, disparage, or otherwise attack them. And certainly don't doxx any non-public figures.
4. Stay on topic
This community is about cars, their externalities in society, car-dependency, and solutions to these.
5. No reposts
Do not repost content that has already been posted in this community.
Moderator discretion will be used to judge reports with regard to the above rules.
Posting Guidelines
In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:
- [meta] for discussions/suggestions about this community itself
- [article] for news articles
- [blog] for any blog-style content
- [video] for video resources
- [academic] for academic studies and sources
- [discussion] for text post questions, rants, and/or discussions
- [meme] for memes
- [image] for any non-meme images
- [misc] for anything that doesn’t fall cleanly into any of the other categories
Recommended communities:
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS