A 175m road scaled in reference to the 35m wide lane:

Infographic not to scale (for some reason)

Some say that cars represent freedom and the ability to go where you want when you want.

But tech oligarchs want to destroy that, too. Basically by having their cars require a connection and monitor your every movement within the car and where you are going and when. They also are obsessed with self-driving cars because they then would have more control over your movements.

In short there will BE no plus side to having a car in the very near future. They are enshittifying everything.

Helsinki just had 0 traffic deaths this past year because they focused all their funding on improving public transportation and bike lanes, disincentivizing car use, and punishing motorists who use their phone or speed by setting up cameras.

I sure wish somebody would look at that incredible success story and try to emulate it here. Unfortunately, public transit seems to be getting less reliable over time instead, which just encourages more car use.

Okay, but if you look carefully at the top of the inverted pyramid, you'll notice that there are no homeless people allowed to participate.

Also, the bottom has no less than six trees which is Woke.

I guess for bicycles, you'd get that down to about 7 meters. Estimated from heavily used bike lanes in Copenhagen where at rush hour two bikes per second pass (7200 persons per hour). Edit: Here is a video of bike rush hour in Amsterdam - try to count the number of persons passing per second.

Fun fact: The distance at which bikes with good paths are faster than metros / rapid transit / commuter rail, or light rail is surprisingly large. I commute to the center of Munich, 14 kilometers one way. It is about 50 minutes on the bike and 60-75 by light rail. And I go at leisurly speed. Plus the bike is much more reliable (outside of icy winter weather, where bike paths are not cleared).

Edit: I'd like to add that for bikes, you don't need necessarily need a single 7 meter wide connection. Four connections, each 2 meters wide, will do fine, too!

Very much not proportional this representation.

A very large blender and a single water truck.

How about for bicycles?

Metros are good for extremely heavy lines and lrt/tram/whatever other similar form of transit is good for convenience and accessibility(that even well built cities often ignore...) but the king is still bikes in my opinion. I live in a city of 150k so its quite a bit smaller than most places where youd have more mass oriented transit but its still interesting to see that the fastest path to city center is with bike. Not bus, not train(except if you live right next to it) and not car.

a 175m wide road would be well over 35 lanes of car traffic, closer to 58. Not 7.

I'm curious about the numbers for tram.

id wager that in toronto, you could build all the subways and LRT and trains, and the road traffic would stay the same. people don't look at cars just for convince, its a cultural thing in north America, that your life is sorted out, like having a house, a good job, savings/retirement fund. people look and treat you weird if you don't have a car or can't drive (ask me how i know that)

I was gonna say people need to sacrifice for the greater common good but then I realized what community this was and knew people were on my same wavelength.

Now do it with lifted pickup trucks assuming 1.25 seating capacity use