I love malicious compliance with car-centric rules 😎
Honestly don’t see the point of sitting outside in such places.
Oh nice, now I can breath petrol fumes and listen to engines while I have my dinner. Good job.
Malicious compliance lol
I think I’m missing something. In this case the car saved the day, didn’t it?
From car-centric, anti-human laws
why should laws not be anti-human? We’re destroying the environment
Capitalism and incessant pollution is destroying the environment. Not humans existing
you do realize posting this shit is implicitly saying you’re suicidal, right?
I’m pretty sure car-centric culture is what made it so this had to be a solution in the first place.
In another Brazilian city I personally know, Jundiaí - SP, some restaurants built some kind of “deck” (made of wood planks) on the side of the street. I tried to embed a photo from one of these (this is my first attempt on sending images to Lemmy using Calckey so I’m not sure if the image will work).
These “decks” were permanently installed, including electrical wiring running from the establishment to the “deck” lights. I don’t even know how the city hall authorized this, considering how the region (Campinas Microregion, Jundiaí Urban Agglomeration and Greater São Paulo, all of them in growing process of conurbation) is highly car-centric (yeah, there’s a growing public infrastructure including trains and bicycle lanes, and Jundiaí, specifically, is pretty walkable, but many things still seem to revolve around vehicles around there).
On the one hand, this theoretically frees up the sidewalk for pedestrians. On the other hand, it depends on the restaurant respecting pedestrians by keeping the sidewalk clear, and I don’t know to what extent these restaurants do this. But this concept of flatbed truck bar isn’t too far from that of these restaurants in Jundiaí.
In a lot of Canadian cities, seasonal patios like that are super common. Patio season is limited and Canadians love eating outdoors when the weather is good, but it’s obviously 3 season infrastructure in a country like Canada.
Keeping the sidewalk clear isn’t really an issue, since nobody wants to have foot traffic buffeting their table. In some cases, the patio takes up the sidewalk, and the sidewalk is diverted around the patio with a wooden boardwalk. It’s so common that there are businesses that do nothing but supply pop-up patios for businesses.
We’ve got some cafes that do this at my local village. No problem with pedestrian traffic. Just everyone being courteous. Works extremely well except for the hoons going past at full speed when they shouldn’t be.
Well… there’s two sides to this. The sidewalk there looks narrow. Banning tables might have been a measure to make walking easier and remove cars.
Or you just make the street for humans, and with that have enough space for sidewalk patio tables and people to walk and cycle through
Yeah, I’m sure that municipality has the cash lying around to just redesign all their streets. Why didn’t they think of that?
It literally only takes paint.
That sidewalk looks at least 2 or 3 meters wide
You gotta ban parking if you want to remove cars. The malicious compliance wouldn’t have worked if that’s the case
Or you could turn that parking spot on a nice service area. As it is done in many countries now. We need to stop giving that much space to cars and trucks
During covid several prominent areas in my area turned about half the parking spots into outdoor seating…
They never stopped it. People love it!
And if we do, charge for parking. Lots of charging.
Even then its renting out public space. Imo just let the restaurants rent it for the same rate. Why do we need to reserve like 40% of our public spaces for car owners?
