Start yelling at your city legislators then. Force them to change how the city zones so things are closer together. It will take a couple decades of work, but you have to be apart of that change for it to happen.
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Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Distance. An hour commute or a 20 minute trip to the grocery store. We killed walkable neighborhoods so now here we are. Trapped.
JayDee@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oh I do but for as much as conservatives whine about California it’s not really a progressive state. Now like a solid liberal bastion of performative politics. Where they’ll talk about banning guns from state property like it’s going to solve firearms deaths and just don’t look at how we’re treating homeless people…
JayDee@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
That’s fair, but I wish you luck in your town Hall meetings and marchs. Local change is always the fastest.
uis@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Open your own grocery store
Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I would if I could. But I can’t beat Walmart prices an hour away on Transit.
Grabthar@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s why you don’t see 15 minute cities anymore. Capitalism already figured out that a few large stores allow you to hire more efficient numbers of employees, buy more for less, stock better variety, pass along some of the savings to customers and still make more profit than building lots and lots of repeated commercial infrastructure throughout residential areas. A return to that model would require more employees in low paying service jobs, and would sacrifice lower prices and better variety. Ironically, it would be far faster to use a car to skip from store to store to look for the best deals and the specific brands you want. I suppose we could also get rid of capitalism at the same time, but I’m not holding my breath. As much as I like the idea of walkable infrastructure, it comes at a cost that I am not sure many would be willing to pay.
Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
It’s very weird that it works all over Europe, but for some reason it’s too expansive for America. It’s almost like it’s not an inevitable course of actions really actually.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If transit gets dense enough then isn’t it walkable in an indirect manner?
Holzkohlen@feddit.de 5 months ago
A car cuck utopia
tiredofsametab@kbin.social 5 months ago
You can do what I did and move to another country. It just takes a lot of time, work, and money to get there (though money can accelerate the former two, in some cases).
OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 5 months ago
But we can’t have 15 minute cities because…that’s tyranny somehow?
ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Too much democracy! Tyranny of the majority!
ByteWizard@lemm.ee 5 months ago
15 minute cities are about as organic as “two weeks to flatten the curve”. There’s a reason they don’t exist, it’s not a practical idea. Just like every other idea children come up with.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That used to be the model. Go look at old pictures. Those people were not walking hours to get groceries.
ByteWizard@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Correct, they’d use a horse or a mule. Cars are an improved horse. Walking and biking are hobbies at best.
Justas@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Yeah, except all of those old European cities and newer Soviet built ones had (and in most cases still have) everything close to 15 minutes away.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oh boy lmao
azulavoir@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Nice bait.
door_in_the_face@feddit.de 5 months ago
15 minute cities do exist, just not in the US. Admittedly, the concept doesn’t always work for work related commutes, because some businesses just need lots of infrastructure away from residential areas. But there are plenty of cities where grocery stores, gyms, restaurants, doctors etc. are within biking or walking distance.