Fabio has donated fantastic text on the event we created.....

*Cars users are big enemies of public space, especially in central locations where pedestrians are the majority and reclaim space to enjoy from the urban life. Big surfaces of urban central areas are devoted to parking space by means of parking cells rented to car users. Of course, the cars users have also right to the city, but a democratic city is supposed to serve to the interest of the big majority (or the minorities when they are vulnerable), and serving to the public should be the reason of public space. None the less this is rented for private use and when the public want to use this privatised public space, it is not possible, even paying for its use. If the rule is the one of commerce, who pays should have the right to buy and enjoy for the object or service that has been sold.

Why are cars so carefully protected by the ‘public authority’? are car users a vulnerable minority in public space? It is ‘the public’ just a discourse that is manipulated by private interest?

Those are the questions that the public opinion should answer form this case: *

this text was supposed to go into the previous article in an introduction part, but i used it like annex....i just like his text.