Why car culture sucks
Why car culture sucks
I can't comprehend living somewhere this horrible. For all its faults, I love Britain esp London.
23It’s awful and geographically most urbanized areas in the US are built this way. Thank god for the small areas that were built before cars were invented. I live in one and while we still have huge negative impacts from car infrastructure at least walking and biking are viable alternatives here, even if the system doesn’t put them first.
The US is truly a shithole country.
29On the flip side, one of the UKs major transport problems is that we were the first to industrialise. So although we have rail networks all over the place, they worm through literally thousands and thousands of small bridges and tunnels designed in the Victorian era. So not only can the speed not increase (at least not without buying the surrounding land and straightening the track, crazy expensive) adding any physical dimension to the trains would basically mean re-digging tons of tunnels and lifting bridges, which would also make the cost crazy.
Meanwhile Germany is zooming about in double decked trains like a boss..
It's actually possible to fly to Europe cheaper than some UK train tickets (due to demand)
Meanwhile, cycling in London is actually getting pleasant in some parts. And it's seriously satisfying to zip past cars congested for miles. The tube is 24hr as is a large part of the bus network.
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It’s Florida. Extremely hot and humid. The video is correct that this car-centric design is intentional. But that’s because people seriously do not want to go outside for longer than it takes to get into their car. So they definitely don’t want the city spending money to build a 400 foot walking path they’re never going to use.
It also needs to be said that Americans buy groceries differently than most other countries. They shop less often and buy much larger quantities, necessitating a car to handle all of the bags.
I’m all in favour of walkable cities but I would not choose to live in a walkable city in Florida!
4This is probably partially true, but some of those apartments are closer than some of those parking spaces. 😆
2Interesting point thanks
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Short form video content about fixing burbs on fediverse
Cheers!
Also, substance wise... No brainer. Some solutions are so low hanging fruit that I am assume they won't do them because they hate the peasants
8Smaller two wheeled cars is the answer! Maybe the wheels are really thin and connected to the bearings via some kind of hub and cables?
6You can fit a shit ton of those in a small parking space.
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How do you share from the loops app (Android) I can't figure it out
6Weird, that menu should have a share button in it. Maybe try checking that you have the latest version?
If that doesn't fix it, !loops@lemmy.world would be a good place to ask
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Can someone else not log into loops? I have an account but clicking the login button does nothing
2Might want to try making sure you've got the latest app version if you haven't already. Beyond that, might want to try posting in !loops@lemmy.world. Logging in works for me 🤷
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Thank you for sharing to me my first loop video !
2It also takes a city council that is paid by car culture to ignore resident requests to build a crosswalk or path from where people live to the shops. The grocery store involved would like that path too, and probably worth it to pay for it or most of it.
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