Why don't people walk anywhere anymore?
Why don't people walk anywhere anymore?
#fuckcars
So you patiently wait for your little white man signal, and as soon as it finally comes on (after 2 full cycles of the traffic lights) you start crossing only to get honked at by some lady who wants to turn right on her red light...
40Well then, that lady needs to wait while I continue to cross with a limp that magically return at the moment she honked her horn.
18I think we're the same kind of asshole!
10I will slow walk the fuck through an intersection or parking lot.
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In America we don't wait for shit. We cross when we think we can make it!
8because otherwise you're gonna be waiting for like 10 minutes
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Ban right on red.
5Preach!
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America has the most horrendous roads and side walks omg
24Our city was apparently designed by Shel Silverstein.
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I lived on an intersection like this for a while and I felt like I was going to fucking die every time I had to cross.
I watched this youtube a while back about how bad our streets are designed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORzNZUeUHAM
14"We even put some nice areas of brown, patchy grass! And look, there's even a shrub!"
12Looks like my Cities Skyline interchanges
12Skylines is typical of that, right? I don't know anything about the game.
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In the past we used to design our cities to be walkable because there was mo other sensible way. Now we build for cars and everything at the human level ends up far away separated by endless parking lots.
11There still is no other sensible way. We just gave up on that part...
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This looks like in cities skyline when I forgot to put in a pedestrian walkway and I can’t really change the streetlayout anymore
9Yeah, that place looks like a perfect excuse to build an over-engineered, spagetti-shaped pedestrian walkway.
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What's funny is a certain type of engineer will look at this and be like hnnnng oh baby look at that
9Simcity/Cities Skyline players too.
Can appreciate the sex appeal of infrastructure while also recognizing its stupid and shouldnt exist outside of a video game :D
4Personally, I even think it's kinda stupid for Skylines to force me to build along a road. I grew up with SimCity; roads helped, but were not actually required because it did actually simulate people walking to a degree.
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I guess the temperature down there is +100 °F
9Not only that but society has become more lazy over the years, and it got worse thanks to the pandemic
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Hell, I wouldn't want to drive there. Ya know, the purpose it was built for.
8Those random white stripes would definitely encourage people to cross!
8My reaction to this was "but there's obviously going to be a footbridge", followed by "wait, really?"
I guess that second thought just about sums up North American infrastructure
8Because the climate is getting too hot to walk.
7Gonna take at least half an hour
7"The shortest distance between two points is a straight line"
"Yeah, but that's too expensive, I like mine better. What's wrong with it?"
gestures wildly at photo THE WHOLE THING
7Looking at Maps, it's a 7 hour walk to my office. Or, two hour bike ride. Or, take 3 busses and a ride share in 2 hours. Or, a 30 minute drive in a car.
6That, also because its 110 god damn degrees outside and I dont want to die of heatstroke before i reach the end of the street
5Brought to you by the Houston metro area.
4❤️ Strong Towns but they should get off Twitter.
4Because Twitter sucks now, right?
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"Oh, just my mother and father and uncle sitting around, talking. It's like being a pedestrian, only rarer." - Clarisse McClellan
3If it only takes a ten minute walk to get to work, I would.
3To get from 6 oclock to 10 oclock you only need to cross 14 lanes, including two
slipmurder lanes.1