I want it to become the mascot of !fuck_cars
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joined 2 years ago
As an Atlanta resident, I'm willing to take the risk.
I hope this doesn't make me regret opposing Milton County.
That's fair. My frustration about the truck circlejerking has been building for a while, and I was venting.
He's also not the leader of the A-Team.
throws chair "Fine, it's just GNU then!"
All this shit seems so futile though. I just want the jumbo sidewalks with a bike lane to be everywhere.
Sidewalks and bike lanes don't get used unless (a) destinations are packed closely enough together for enough trips to be in reasonable walking or cycling distance, and (b) the experience is reasonably pleasant (i.e., not a no-man's-land sandwiched between a stroad and a bunch of parking lots).
In other words, it's the zoning that has to be fixed first, by increasing density and removing minimum parking requirements.
Yes, it is funny that folks here apparently just want to circlejerk scapegoating big trucks while downvoting any actual urbanist who dares to point out that they're focusing on the wrong problem.
You know what causes pedestrian fatalities? The presence of cars of any size.
You know what eliminates pedestrian fatalities? Deleting parking lots and pedestrianizing streets.
Who cares if the parking spaces are 8x18 or 10x20 or whatever? That doesn't matter. What matters is dipshits continuing to insist on building fifty of them when they ought to be building zero!
Switching fifty people from driving big trucks to driving small cars does nothing but chip around the edges of the problem because they're still fucking driving. That means, for example, you're still building suburban-style strip malls for them when you should be building walkable main streets instead.
The issue here is that we need to switch (back) to an entirely different style of urban development, and the size of cars does precisely fuck-all to help with that!
No. (Source: I had to try to keep its zombie corpse shuffling along at my last job.)