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Cities should have separated ways for power-to-6Km/h speed differences.

Pedestrian: 6KM/h bicycle: 18KM/h City scooters: 24 KM/h Fast city scooters: 42 KM/h Cars: 48 KM/h (50KM)

Unsure if 12, 30 and 36 must get a new category. For 12, niche electric vehicles usually are around that speed (e.g. mobility scooters, electric toys)

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Cities, by which I mean the CBDs, shouldn't have thoroughfare car traffic going through them at all. Take the cars out of the equation and you suddenly get a lot more space and a lot more safety. Obviously it can't work for all roads in a CBD, but none of the compromises I see where there is still mixed traffic work. Unless you are in a car, no one wants to be around them, and in a CBD it is the minority that are in cars.

Kind of like The Roads Must Roll by Robert Heinlein.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roads_Must_Roll

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