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[–] verdantbanana@lemmy.world -5 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

how would downtown get deliveries of any kind?

[–] br3d@lemmy.world 20 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Outside peak hours, by very slow-moving delivery vehicles. This is a solved problem all over Europe

[–] lgsp@feddit.it 8 points 6 hours ago

There are plenty of cities around the world with downtowns closed to cars, and a lot of thriving stores.

There are solutions, this is not an excuse to to allow cars in city centers

[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago

In Barcelona they converted the grids so instead of having all traffic on every street it is one for cars in direction a, one for pedestrians and cyclists and then one for cars in the other direction and again one for pedestrians and cyclists etc, they still manage to stock stores etc so it's very possible.