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chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 days agoBelieve it or not, not everyone lives in dense urban areas or the suburbs.
And the scale of the US isn’t something most Europeans understand. How long does it take you drive across your country? In the US, a drive from Southern California to Maine is over 48 hours and around 5000 kilometers.
The Texas Triangle megalopolis (Houston, Dallas, San Antonio) is bigger than lots of European countries.
MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 2 days ago
oh this tired argument again!
You don’t drive across the country daily do you? How long does it take to drive across the country? that’s irrelevant.
the whole of zoning and design of US is bad.
You can’t bring this up when the argument is how far is your local grocery store is to your house. Unless you drive cross country for your groceries!
“Not everyone lives in dense urban areas or suburbs”
Your argument is “that’s how it has always been and we have to solve around it” when the solution is to not to have it that way.
the US is hopelessly into spread out development. There’s no solving your way out of having to drive 10 minutes to get groceries without substantial changes to mindset and zoning policies. It’s so absurd!
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s not zoning.
It’s when places developed. The super spread-out metroplexes of the US are in areas that developed after the invention of the automobile.
Europe isn’t more enlightened when it comes to development. They’re just older. Cities tend to develop around most people living within an hour of where they work. When the US urbanized, that was a much larger area due to technological advancements. Rolling that back is almost impossible.
MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 8 minutes ago
america used to develop for density. Go read the book “Strong towns” technolpgical development alone doesn’t explain the car centric development. There was active lobbying and dismantling of alternative methods of construction just to support automobiles.
Americans have been brainwashed into accepting there is no solution to a problem that was introduced by car makers in the 1960s. American cities were dense and had lots of alternate modes of transit before all of it was ripped out under the guise of technological “development” and “freedom”