@MercuryRains@OstTed@reddit_lies I was curious so googled it.
"The oldest constructed roads discovered to date are in former Mesopotamia, now known as Iraq. These stone paved streets date back to about 4000 B.C. in the Mesopotamia cities of Ur and Babylon."
So give or take 6000 years before cars!
@ThyWordIsTruth1@reddit_lies Americans learning that their liveable european style towns were bulldozed in the 50's because big oil and big auto bribed government to make american civilisation one big motorway challenge: Impossible
@Transit_Jam@cszabla@theJeremyVine Maybe in HK one could make a start by addressing the struggles that pedestrians face, that would already be something.
@ForgottenNY @3rdandDeanBK @Streetfilms I have some coworkers who live in Utrecht and commute by train, the distance from Amsterdam seems to be about 25 miles.
For me it's 6 miles which I do by bike unless the weather's terrible, then I take a bus.
@Enfors That's funny, when I saw "Pants" in your name and Python in the bio, I was certain you must be a Pants evangelist. Anyways, Pants is quite nice to work with, I'd recommend it.
@Enfors A plugin for the Pants build system.
I was assuming that that's what the "Pants" in your name is referring to, but maybe that was a mistaken assumption. 😉