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burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

I think… you may need to look up the definition of a 15 minute city before expanding on this comment.

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PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Which definition? Some people just made up their own. The definition I used in the above comment was “a city where you can travel everywhere within 15 minutes”, no more, no less. Also, I kind of ignored walking times.

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- burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15-minute_city
  
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  - PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Oh right, let me clarify:
    
    The Spine
    
    Early plans [for Neom] proposed an underground railway with 510-kilometre-per-hour (317 mph) trains that could travel from one end of The Line to the other in 20 minutes.
    
    From: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Line%2C_Saudi_Arabia#Th…
    
    I meant to refer to that thing. I should have said 20 minutes, not 15, and I shouldn’t have used the specific phrase “15 minute city” to refer to a city that can be traveled anywhere within 15 minutes. Mea culpa.
    
    Back to the point, though: none of that changes that a Line is mind-bogglingly stupidly bad compared to just a basic grid.
    
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