British children are 3 times more likely than Dutch children to be obese. A British journalist explains why

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• Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The last kid is going places, on a bike.

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  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And he will be very sweaty

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• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Weird thing is that many American kids no longer do this in the suburbs, and it used to be very very common 30+ years ago.

  I imagine that is a combo of helicopter parenting + American roads becoming less safe.

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  • DireTech@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Most kids have no where nearby to go on bikes. Plus cars and trucks are enormously more dangerous to kids these days thanks to being much larger, heavier and quicker to accelerate.

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  • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Of course kids can’t go bike riding because they are not allowed to be outside your sight.

    cnn.com/…/mother-arrested-missing-son-georgia-cec

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• just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Works great if you have smaller spaces, able bodied people, and the infrastructure in place to support it.

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  • JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For what it’s worth, dense infrastructure is possible everywhere, even in large spaces like the United States. It just doesn’t get built because the people tasked with making such decisions choose not to for various reasons.

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    • just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The density in a specific location isn’t the issue, it’s the space BETWEEN all other locations. Too much sprawl to begin with requires extensive work of a long period of time to even be able to do something this.

      Also helps that the cities this works for were built for walking a long time before cities in the US had even developed a unique urban footprint. East Coast cities established in the 1500-1700’s would be the closest in design to European cities.

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  • Sineljora@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’d like to see it start with no-car zones around downtown centers, maybe even just a single street with good park-n-ride support, and expand into dense areas as needed, with car and carless connections between them

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  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Regarding able bodied people, pedestrian and cycling infrastructure is generally superior for people with disabilities. Many can’t drive a car, and the same infrastructure that serves bikes can serve e-bikes, mopeds, mobility scooters, etc.

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    • just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You seem to think I’m somehow making a statement AGAINST ped infrastructure,.and I’m clearly not. Just saying the ability to have it be useful requires a lot of stuff the US just doesn’t have. The US was too focused on Suburban sprawl for way too long to suddenly just make this a viable alternative to cars. That’s the issue.

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• Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Thanks for posting this. Its good to see people with a completely different mindset showing alternative solutions can work, sometimes better than the original.

  I live in the EU, but we still have serious car brain problem on the roads. Still not enough cycle paths.

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