• @[email protected]
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      124 days ago

      Rouds have material manifestations. The ground is different so driving there makes a difference. But historically, streets were the empty space between houses until the car industry lobbied to get the pedestrians out of the way.

      • @jaybone
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        24 days ago

        Didn’t they have like horses and carts and shit?

        • @[email protected]
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          54 days ago

          Yes, true, and all used the streets equally. It was the car accidents and the victim blaming campaigns that blamed the pedestrians that invented the sidewalk. But roads existed before to get from one village to the next