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[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Tbh, a walkable city would also make for nice driving because it would alleviate congestion

[–] traches 116 points 1 month ago (17 children)

Honestly at this point I want to live somewhere that’s actively hostile to cars

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If you can afford it, downtown Vancouver, BC is hostile to cars.

Parking surcharges (that specifically fund transit), just a few bridges and a couple main roads in and out of downtown.

Downtown eastside you got homeless people that give no shits and will cross the road whenever and block cars.

Downtown westside and all around downtown you have bike lanes, lots of people on bikes and many streets that you can't continue straight unless you are on a bicycle.

Central downtown has a transit mall that only buses, taxis and local deliveries can use.

Most of all you have a Costco that you can get to easier by transit, bike or walking than you can by car.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (4 children)

damn, a walkable Costco is impressive. Even the Costco in Stockholm is car only.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

damn yall out here driving cars in stores

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Stockholm has Costco Syndrome

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

stockholm has a costco lmao? how do they manage to compete with the existing dollarstore and eko stormarknad?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (3 children)

adds twelve lanes to my stroad

One guy needs to move from the far left entrance-lane to the far right exit-lane

Causes a sixteen car pileup

Traffic clogged for miles

This happens a minimum of three days a week

Guys, cars are just more convenient, you just don't understand how to take civil engineering seriously.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

You can see this in the netherlands. Barely any cars on the road compared to germany. I sometimes need to deliver items there for work and it's so much nicer to drive there. Also you are always punctual because traffic is so predictable.

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Seriously! It's currently 100 degrees in my city. Walking down the neighborhood blocks with tree coverage makes such a difference.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

100 degrees in my city.

It's boiling hot. Literally. How?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Ah. Imperialism.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

*checks soviet citybuilding books* Yep, more trees.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Good public transportation, bike lanes, and all with walkability in mind, I wish

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

if your in the states chicago has that. City is on a grid system and up to two transfers between bus and trains are free not to mention the fare itself is very reasonable https://www.transitchicago.com/fares/ also bike lanes abound now. You would be hard pressed to find a major street without at least the lines and most expansion now is about protected lanes.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is quite literally what a large stretch of the Ohlone Greenway looks like from Richmond through El Cerrito, Albany, Berkeley, Emeryville, down to Oakland looks like.

[–] brbposting 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Pepe is dead. His creator killed him because of all the far right memes he was used in.

Just stop.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago

fuck the far right they can't take pepe from us. Don't let them walk all over you

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pepe is like water. Everyone drinks water.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Everyone drinking water has died. Coincide? I think not.

Pepe is evil. Don't drink Pepe.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (11 children)

i did not know walkable cities was a far right movement. wow. you learn something new everyday i guess

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[–] Soulg 35 points 1 month ago

Man the whole "pepe is right wing" thing was huge like 4 years ago, now I literally only ever see it mentioned by people like you. It's a drawing of a frog, if you don't like it then hide the post.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

That is not dead which can eternal lie,

And with strange aeons even death may die.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

feelsbadman.jpg

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (8 children)

i really wish my city had a lot of bike lanes

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well, I can tell you as someone who lives in one that does: cops and other assholes park all over the bike lanes constantly, and idiots walk all over it without looking. So…I’m all for them. But we have to eliminate cops and cars and other idiocy for them to workike they should.

You can read all about it in my upcoming NYT bestseller, Cops and Other Idiots: A Biker’s Guide to Pretending You Didn’t Mean To Run Over That Cop (And Those Other Assholes!)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

you wish your city had a lot of bike PATHS, it drives me mad that everyone keeps using the term "bike lane" because that very specifically means just painting a line on the road which is TERRIBLE.

If every bike lane was replaced with a wide sidewalk for both bicycles and pedestrians america would actually be a halfway okay place to live in, that's the standard here in sweden and while it's obviously not optimal, it means you can reliably bike just about everywhere and people with wheelchairs or mobility scooters don't have to worry about having infrastructure available to safely get around.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Aww hell yes

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Even if we don't end up winning the Euro football championship, 🇳🇱 is the walkability winner.

I recently came across this enthusiastic in-depth analysis of a completely unknown and (to us) normal train station somewhere in the province. No sports event will ever make me feel as patriotic as this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HACaRm2KP6Q

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[–] the_crotch 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

"walkable city" image includes 15 people and only 2 are walking

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

biking is just walking while sitting down

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My city is basically made for transformers, very little you can do walking

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is what I dream of for my city and I drive for a living. Get these 70 square feet of individual morons who don't need to be on the road out of my way.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Given that you drive for living, you probably drive truck or bus or taxi. Makes sense. Using huge steel brick to transport 1.2 people on average is such idiocy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Parking deez nuts

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