The people that are open to exploration and travel are generally not the ones opposed to progressive city planning.

The fear-based mindset opposed to change at any cost is not exactly conducive to exploring other cultures.

I'm the other way around - I took one trip to the Netherlands and didn't expect to come back forever changed. I know what good public transit looks like now and can't unsee it. Since then I've picked apartments based on how bicycle and metro connected they are.

My hypothesis is people are easily frightened idiots. They don't like change of any sort. It frightens them and then they can't reason about if the change is good or bad long term.

If a place had bike lanes for years the same people who bike-lash would probably oppose removing them.

lol. Those Americans have never left the country and don’t have a passport.

Not even close to being untrue. I've listened to a lot of conservatives being anti-sidewalks growing up, complaining how sidewalks aided criminals.

Republicans are typically the people against good public transportation or bike lanes on roads. Republicans tend to be the people who don't travel outside the United States. Democrats tend to be in favor of these things and they are also the people who would be riding a bike around on vacation.

Imagine your typical red-neck conservative going to Europe on vacation. Hard to do? Now imagine them going on a bike tour. It's fucking ridiculous.

I've been to cities with nice public transit and clean streets.

I still don't like cities.

But I appreciate that if we make cities nicer and more convenient more people would choose them and they'd stop tearing up wild places.

I will not live in your cities. But I know why they must exist.

I literally have a father in law that bitches about a new public transit bus line being put into his suburb to get to the metro. Americans will bitch about anything. I have to hear about it all the time.

How can you feel guilty for pollution if you don't believe in pollution? Checkmate libtards. Now excuse me, I have a plane to catch, going to the grocery store, both trucks are at the garage.

I doubt many Americans vacationing in Europe are opposed to walkable cities.

It doesn’t really help that Americans can’t ride a bicycle for shit. Tourists on bikes are a major hazard, but so are tourists on foot in any city with dedicated space for bicycles. They just cross it and walk on it without watching or even a single thought. They just assume it’s part of the pavement.

It's telling that Americans think walkable neighborhoods are vacation destinations and not real places. They literally go to a place called "the magic kingdom" to walk around and enjoy but think it's at best a quaint ancient /medieval throwback or a fantasy land

Fake. Those kinda people would never ride a bike. Instead, they would be stuck somewhere with their oversized car and would complain why they can't drive theough the inner city and do sightseeing from the inside of their car lol.

No, a car would

God how i wish we could have that.

Shit started to go wrong as far back as the 50s most places, perhaps earlier in the US. Light rail, tram networks were ripped up all over the world in favour of private motor vehicles and US style real estate development with their car centric dead burbs and no local life.

Once you go all in on car centric planning it is difficult to go back. Housing development is a long way from quality entertainment, shopping, food, culture, work so people need to travel long distances but everything is so distributed and low density that its hostile to public transport networks.

Americans are correct. You can't simply swap to bikes and public transport on top of 70+ years of insane urban planning. Some older inner cities and very small towns can be fixed. The rest is a problem.