Comment on anon discusses car dependence
tyler@programming.dev 1 day agoI mean we do need that, but that has nothing to do with the problem. the majority of people don’t live in those vast expanses of nothingness. Most of our cities are just as populated as most European cities, we just have shit laws around zoning, single family housing, population density, NIMBYs blocking any change, and people that think public transit is for poor people. They don’t travel to other countries and so have no clue how good things could actually be.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Yeah above all else I think that is the biggest issue. There are daft rules about the size of carparks that mean that, what would be a local store in the EU, becomes this vast strip mall in the US with 12 acres of parking lot to walk across so you can get your milk.
You practically need a car to just drive across the vast expanses of car infrastructure. Crossing the road in the US is something you have to plan your day around
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, it’s a shithole country which is why I got rid of my car, let my driver’s license expire, and left the country. Looking back, it was pretty prescient considering how fascism-y it has gotten there.