[Discussion] What are your opinions on this Not Just Bikes comments on "fixing" North America?

My entire problem with fuck cars, in this post.

I agree with 90% of what this community says, but it’s all mainly complaining without any realistic actions or ideas on trying to fix anything.

It’s just an venting outlet, which is fine, just not what I want to be a part of.

In 10-15 years, LA will have a very good bike system and connections to buses and transit. With good density around most transit.

He is completely wrong.

Sure it's not going to be as good as Amsterdam in our life, but it is the beginning of the process that we saw in Amsterdam 50 years ago.

Some parts and areas are already pretty nice and getting better.

The fact is, most our cities simply have to change now. It's not possible for them to keep going how they are

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Get money out of politics and things could change very fast. It’s corporate rule with corporate money that is killing the US.

He's actually been kinda cranky on Mastodon lately. I've actually thought about unfollowing him because he's been a bit of a downer and even downright rude. Still love his videos, but I'm beginning to think he might be kind of a dick.

It really depends on where in the USA, but for the most part he's right.

Any growing communities like small towns and cities have the chance to change this, but it usually sounds too high risk for them.

Plus they already have to deal with the insane red tape and overhead in the US like poorly cascaded federal and state laws, lowest bidder stupidity, maximum annual budget spending, scam zoning laws, and slow as hell development time.

Like I would definitely throw in effort to try in the plenty of towns that surround metro areas.

Dearborn for example, which is technically metro Detroit, surprisingly has some walkable neighborhoods because the smallest roads are thinner and businesses are very close to residential areas. It's definitely not perfect because all the main roads (stroads) are still absolutely huge, but it's nice to see that it's not just typical suburbs with strict Zoning.

But after visiting Houston, I would just declare the entire state of Texas a lost cause.

He is right, in that the change people wish for might take more than half a century to reach, but more importantly, the problem is cultural and very rooted in how americans perceive freedom .