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Originally Posted by Yurkek
In most cases public is behind and tries to preserve their surroundings as they are. That's why you need smart people in local governments to push the envelope. Once people see and feel how great it is to not depend 100% on cars, they wouldn't trade for anything else. Obviously feedback is needed, because it is easy for engineers and planners to be carried away. That's how we got in trouble in the first place.
At least I am glad that in US the new trend is trying to build more human scale environment.
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I'd say "the public" is mostly uninsterested and are ok with depending on the professionals. In the Slussen case the anti-crowd re-started an old local party (Stockholmspartiet) based only on this issue. It got like .2% of the vote for city council. And in one survey it turned out that Slussen was a decisive issue for iirc .5% of voters when choosing who to vote for.
That much of the paper media made it sound like it was a majority hating on the changes, it was never actually something that most people cared that much about and in the only well-made survey it turned out most people were in favour of the changes.
It isn't usually "the people" who are against change. It is in my experience a small group claiming to represent the vast majority, a small group that tends to be older and longing for being on the barricades.
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Originally Posted by Busy Bee
As an American, I get a calming reassurance when reminded that stupid people are in fact everywhere.
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The stupid, it's everywhere
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