• Fredselfish @lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    Sad how car citric our cities have become. But even worse was in Yellowstone and you can’t get anywhere without a car and traffic backs up and you stuck while everyone sitting in their running cars spraying the shitty fumes in the air.

  • tiredofsametab@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Without looking, I’m pretty sure that’s Houston, TX near the arena (whose name now escapes me after almost a decade away). I moved to a place with great public transit and could never go back to driving all the time.

    • 🐱TheCat@sh.itjust.works
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      2 years ago

      driving my car includes:

      • paying money to put gas, oil, tires on the car for the rest of my life
      • paying some dickhead insurance fees monthly
      • sitting in traffic
      • risking getting a ticket from any power tripping cop who wants to make up a reason to test if I have a dashcam
      • risking getting injured/murdered when any other idiot nearby in a car does something stupid at 60mph +
      • if I do get injured, I get to pay for that too cause MURICA
      • a notable lack of anything fun and cool like open windy roads to drive on or safe areas to do donuts

      now, do you really think most people like not having a choice about needing all that just to get basic life stuff done? ‘Driving my car’ isn’t some fun hobby for us, it’s a bullshit thing we’re coerced into because our country was run by oil tycoons who hated public transport.

      oh forgot one:

      • dealing with a generation of old people who have been permanently stunted by leaded gasoline, making them more likely to be stupid, angry, and violent.
  • AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    For anyone who lives in cities with half responsible urban planning, let me tell you: It’s worse than you can imagine. It’s genuinely unwalkable (I’ve tried, don’t have a car) especially in the summer when you have zero protection from the sun. Also, this is technically the “downtown” with all the commercial/industrial areas. It’s hard enough to walk through here, the distance between your 1M+ house deep in the suburbs to here is ten times greater, maybe it’ll have sidewalks, or a bike path if you’re really lucky.

    Give me a godamn concrete jungle, we’ll discuss aesthetics and blocking out light and the view out the window and all that later, at the very least you can physically access places you need to go.

    • octobob@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      There are a few gems. I’ve lived in Pittsburgh all my life. Our geography and age of the city forced our hand that most everywhere is still walkable, and not completdly car-centric. My partner walks about 3-5 miles a day, and can bus to just about anywhere. We only have a light rail that connects the suburbs, and the rest of the city to the east is cut off other than busses, but it works.

      Downtown has some highways that intersect but they’re a spaghetti mess and often involve needing to cut across 4 lanes on a bridge right after you exit a tunnel. Take a look at our map and you’ll probably see what I mean. There’s a few semblances of a grid in certain neighborhoods, but most of the streets are all over the place.

      I love our house to death though. We’re still in the city and have a hundred different things to do all the time, but it’s tucked away on a dead end street in the woods with only one neighbor, who is about 100+ feet away. We can see the river from our front stoop and frequently see lots of wildlife, birds of prey like hawks and vultures, deer, turkeys, groundhogs, you name it. The house is built into the side of a mountain so the first floor, which is where our bedroom is, is naturally cool because there’s over a story of retaining walls surrounding the house so it’s basically underground. I haven’t had air conditioning for over a decade.