You guys think turning this country into broad swaths of suburbs and 10 lane interstates was bad or something?
Bro, this country is terminally fucking car brained, even among environmentalist groups. I’ve been following the CAHSR project pretty close, and the Sierra Club got the planned Los Banos (it’s a bedroom community for the bay area and a lot of super commuters live there) station shitcanned early on (because “won’t someone please think of the wetlands?!” But also we’re totally cool with the 152 bypass project and unlimited suburban expansion into the wetlands, just not anything that will actually do anything to conserve the environment long term), and also made it so that the train had to go into a corrugated metal tunnel while travelling along highway 152 to keep from hurting the birds in the wetlands. Nevermind the four lane highway right next to the train, that’s fine, cars never hurt birds, everyone knows that.
terminally fucking car brained
Remember how quickly politicians had to walk back talk of “fifteen minute cities” because America collectively shit its pants at the thought of having to walk anywhere?
MODEST EXERCISE?! IT’S A CONSPIRACY, BUT MUH RIGHTS, AAAAAAAA
Tbh, I’m almost certain that was an astroturf by big oil, when it was noticing that people were not commuting and enjoying not commuting during the lock down.
Out of all the right-wing outrage idiocy, car dependency is the least believable to be organic.
Rent in cities, especially walkable cities is high for a reason: they’re desirable, in-demand areas. Literally too popular for their own good.
I pay out the ass in rent but really gas and upkeep would make up for the difference and then I’d have to drive and live somewhere worse.
I know that was the joke but no I literally think they were afraid of the 15-minute walk. I read that only 25% of adult Americans walk for more than 10 minutes continuously in a week
My ex spouse and I used to walk places together when we were young. An hour wasn’t all that uncommon. The instant they got a car “no I don’t want to walk”. Yeah we can walk 20min to our destination but why do that when they could spend 5min getting the car ready, 10min driving, 15min being pissed while trying to find parking, then 5min walking because that’s the closest parking space to the destination. Blew my mind, years of trying to talk them into walking with me again, never worked
god finding street parking is so awful
Almost like giving every single person a 50 sqft hunk of metal (plus 25 sqft on either end) doesn’t work in cities.
it sure doesn’t
Fun fact, the minimum parking spot size in my city is 250 sqft, literally a tiny house
i’d bike if we had infrastructure (and maintained it during the winter) but my legs would fall off if i walked that long.
getting groceries is pushing it even with leaning on the cart.
I saw that they thought people were going to be fined/arrested for leaving their 15 minute zones. This may have been more a thing in Australia though where we had distance-based travel restrictions and curfews during COVID lockdowns
