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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Ushering in a period of hundreds of years of well-laid out cities* and plentiful foot traffic 🙏

*except Rome itself, ironically

lmao, that reminds me, in the city of Rome itself, all passenger traffic was required to be foot traffic. Horses were not to be ridden in the city limits (save on special occasions), and any carriages had to be dismounted from before entering the city. Only cargo was permitted to be carried on animal-drawn vehicles. Thought FuckCars might sympathize with that bit of antiquity. Would that we were so serious about choking out traffic in our own cities.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Neat, I didn’t know this detail! I’ve also heard (source: bad memory from uni class) that they required cargo deliveries to only be at night?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Yep! I think that law may not have outlasted Julius Caesar, who passed it.