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Yasm@programming.dev to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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People in Boulder, Colorado protest the sale of a downtown parking lot

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People in Boulder, Colorado protest the sale of a downtown parking lot

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https://boulderreportinglab.org/2026/08/23/boulder-city-council-approves-5-8-million-sale-of-downtown-parking-lot-for-110-room-hotel/

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    A fuckcars sub is arguing against removal of a parking lot?

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      In a photo post no less.

      Where the fuck are the mods?

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        I’m not a fan of removing dissenters just for being stupid and wrong. I’d rather insult them.

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      The sale would be to build a hotel. It’s not like hotels reduce the amount of vehicles people are driving.

      It’s potentially worse than the parking lot.

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        So this a “fuck everything I don’t like including cars” sub. Got it.

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          You understand that cars are used to get places??? So when a parking lot is replaced, then those cars that were using the lot need to find another place?

          You understand second order effects right?

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            But cars don’t have to be used, which is the point of this sub. A hotel can have people arriving via shuttle, via bus, walking from a nearby train station. Yes there will be cars, but it’s reduced. A parking lot can only be used as a parking lot for cars.

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              Fantastic. MAYBE people WON’T use cars to get to the hotel.

              https://www.theacorn.com/articles/study-shows-hotel-would-generate-slightly-less-traffic-than-office-building/

              But everything I can find, shows that building a hotel DOES increase cars on the road. Linked one example.

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        Where should they put the hotel then? In the middle of nowhere so people have to drive there?

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          There are quite a few jotels already there so I’m not sure what your point is?

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          Who says they need a hotel. Might as well ask where they would put the used car dealership.

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            Yeah, nobody ever goes to Boulder CO, anyone dumb enough to visit their kid at UC can easilly sleep in their… car…

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              Ok fine then, another hotel.

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              There are quite a few in Boulder already, quite a few near UC Boulder… So what’s your point?

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