The person on the left is carrying bags, the one in orange is a delivery driver and a couple of people are wearing backpacks. Aside from car brained, Damaris is also blind.

  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    People can’t travel 30 miles from their home to the office entirely using public transit. Walkable cities and light rail are Last-mile. Heck - throw in high-speed for the majority of the transit and you still have a huge first-mile problem, which is by far the hardest to solve.

    The reasons modern cities are designed around cars is because cars are flexible. Add a street for a new row of houses and every single one of those points is connected to every end point in a single step. No new scheduling, routing, or transit lines required. Problem solved with a little asphalt.

    It’s an easy solution, and backing out of it is very, very difficult because it must be replaced with a complicated, expensive solution that’s less-convenient for most users.

    I’m not anti-transit at all, but people around here seem to believe that a city can be fixed with the power of wishes and fairy dust just because another city that covers 1/10th the area and was developed hundreds of years before auto-centric decelopment ago managed to do it.

    • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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      6 months ago

      People can’t travel 30 miles from their home to the office entirely using public transit.

      Does ALL Americans travel 30 miles for work?

      Walkable cities and light rail are Last-mile. Heck - throw in high-speed for the majority of the transit and you still have a huge first-mile problem, which is by far the hardest to solve.

      Foldable bicycle? Kick scooter? Skateboard? Frequent scheduled tram? Frequent scheduled buses? Walkable suburb?

      The reasons modern cities are designed around cars is because cars are flexible.

      So does all those micromobile.

      Add a street for a new row of houses and every single one of those points is connected to every end point in a single step. No new scheduling, routing, or transit lines required

      That’s what called lazy design, and that’s why american and all the people from car dependent city are so miserable about their daily commuting.

      Problem solved with a little asphalt.

      Our definition of “little” might be a bit different.

      It’s an easy solution

      And a costly one. Maintaining road for car is far more expensive than for public transport because of the amount of people each mode of transport carry.

      backing out of it is very, very difficult

      It’s difficult because it’s written into stupid law by stupid politician. That’s what i called lacking political will.

      because it must be replaced with a complicated, expensive solution that’s less-convenient for most users.

      It’s not even about replacing one for another, it’s about providing a good, viable option, and not a half done one then call it a day, to people who want to use such infrastructure.

      I’m not anti-transit at all, but people around here seem to believe that a city can be fixed with the power of wishes and fairy dust just because another city that covers 1/10th the area and was developed hundreds of years before auto-centric decelopment ago managed to do it.

      Nobody think that, that’s just strawman argument. You know why people around here don’t take you seriously? Because you never pay attention to what their stand are. There’s a reason carbrain is a popular term with urbanist/pro-strong town because car people just can’t seems to wrap their head around on the concept of giving people the option for viable alternative transport. Literally every car brain i met seems to believe everyone is living on some edge case hence car should be the only transport, they never seems to think edge case is just that, edge case.

      https://youtu.be/MWsGBRdK2N0?si=1NXVnwQDm_C9B9R1

      I’ll just leave this video here.