Remove pedestrians, biking and transit because they take up car space. Now everyone drives and you're 45 minutes stuck in traffic.
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As long as I'm in my 18 wheeler pick up truck that takes up 2 lanes and consumes more gallons of gas than a whole pump in the middle east can produce in a day every week, I'm happy!
(Post brought to you by the american brainwashed mind)
CANYONERRROOOOOO
People ask me all the time if taking the bus is stressful but like. bruh I'm zoned out scrolling social media the entire time at the bus stop and on the bus. Or I'm just straight up zoned out. I don't have to pay attention even to my own driving let alone the rest of these people. And also once in a blue moon the bus driver does something utterly wild like execute a perfect K-turn on a crowded city street in the ice without touching a single car to route around a detour (my mind was blown).
Bus drivers are magicians, I always think "where is he even going to go there's not even close to enough space" and they just magic the bus smaller to fit while I'm panicking the whole time thinking we're about to crash.
Turns out, spending 40 hours a week driving makes you pretty good at driving.
Also spending most time driving down the exact same route in mostly the exact same traffic conditions
The world would be a better place if people spent more time recognizing and admiring skilled labor. Like even people who mostly just move and make things. The level of dexterity alone is just 👨🍳🤌💋
Literally the only people in vietnam who use their indicators and take care to avoid bikes. I'm more comfortable lane-splitting between 2 buses than being within 100 feet of a construction vehicle.
To be fair, I think depending on your mood and weather it can in fact be nicer to be sitting in a climate controlled box with a nice chair and a stereo system
Even better would be sitting in a climate-controlled box, with a nice chair, and a good stereo system... at home, relaxing after a nice walk.
Sometimes you don't want to go for a walk, it can be because you're tired, or because the weather sucks. At that point public transit is best, but depending on how big your town/city is it may not be feasible to fund it properly.
depending on how big your town/city is it may not be feasible to fund it properly.
Maybe you mean how spread out your town/city is because of all the car parks (thanks to mandatory parking requirements, etc).
If a city is spread out that wide, it likely needs a lot more work than plonking in some public transit, but metro and busses can work well together.
But one step at a time! Lets just make it the right steps.
Also depending on how much shit you need to transport.
Even if there was a store within walking distance, I wouldn't fancy walking with a week's worth of groceries.
Americans can't comprehend European magic.
Okay, sure ... but on that note ... what kind of maniac would put all those fresh fruits and vegetables all just piled together inside, with no packaging at all to keep them separate/intact and then add a baguette in there as well, just stuffed in among the vegetables? And, somehow, the worst part is that they have 4 red peppers, and the peppers aren't even all in the same general area, they're just tossed in there randomly...
You better don't look in my backpack then. 😂
In a walkable area, you don't buy for a week at a time, you buy what you need for a meal or two. Popping into the store is a pleasant, 10-minute diversion where you're likely to see friends and neighbors, not a 2-hour safari overland to the edge of nowhere. It means buying fresh, healthy food, rather than the giant pallets of highly-processed product that I see folks haul out of the CostCo.
Walkable doesn't mean only walking
Walkable doesn't mean only walking
Just like portable software doesn't mean that the only thing you do with software is porting it.
At one point I had a 55min commute using transit but would usually get hard by weather as 2 of my stops didn't have cover. Also the occasional meth/fent heads, missed connections, overcrowding...
Or sit in my car on a 45min commute.
Eventually I met it halfway by joining a vanpool but that shit still cost more than mass transit and got expensive when my employer cut transit vouchers.
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Hiking in the arctic pulling a sled with all your gubbins.. or having 12-16 fluffy doggos pull you and the sled for the love of the game?
I would a million time prefer walking 16 minutes than sitting in traffic for 6.
Around here, if someone complains about a two hour freeway commute, it's "man up, it's just part of life!"
"Man up" is just a universal thought terminating cliche whenever a person that happens to present masculine complains about anything.
And if we're going to go that route, I prefer "embrace the suck" as a more fun and helpful thought terminating cliche.
It's also not needlessly gendered, so that's another point in favour!
What an insane mentality. Barring some pretty specific circumstances I fail to see how anyone would be forced to endure 2 hr commutes. Those people chose that shit.
My husband is blue collar. He goes where things need to be fixed. Sometimes his commute is 15 minutes, but it's often 2 hours, when you factor in distance and traffic. A lot of blue collar deals with this, and yeah. We choose that shit over being homeless. His tech field laid him and everyone else off a few years ago.
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I have to commute by car to commute by bus so I’ve started just commuting by car
my goodness, im having flashbacks of my pre covid office days spending 6 hrs of commute time just to get on and off to work
every....fucking...day.
6 hours? At that point, I'd drive a camper to work and just sleep in the parking lot.
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Locking to prevent more reports about absolutely braindead takes. Some of y'all clearly aren't adults
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