I just need to carry my hang glider and sailboat :(
Motorists hate this one simple trick
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Be happy that you can use an e-scooter or bike. Imagine being unable to use such a device, crappy public transport, and that in a city that cuts off cars…
IIRC this often comes up and actually removing cars generally helps people with disabilities. Sure you may always have a few exceptions, but disabled parking can still exist while everyone that is able bodied can walk.
The problem is that it does not remove cars in that city. People still need to get to work, and public transport is so bad, it is hardly an alternative.
The mayoress simply f-cks up car traffic, only marginally improves bike traffic, and public transport (busses) have been victims of cutting into car traffic, too.
Better make a big detour around that place.
Most people I know work within a distance they could easily cycle. All of them go to shops that could easily be cycled to. Yet they all drive pretty much every time.
It’s not so much about eliminating all cars, but discouraging their use for so much. Most people drive even if it’s less than a mile. My partner is often surprised at how quickly I can cycle to the shops and back, well yeah I didn’t have to wait in traffic of course it’s faster. Would be even faster if I had an ebike, probably, not sure how fast I can cycle compared to the 15mph ebike limit. I know I can sprint well into the upper 20s but sustained speed will be a lot less than that.
Back when I studied in that city, I did commute by bike, 20km each way, and was much faster than public transport. I am happy that I only have business there two or three times a year.
Motorcycle passes them all
Beefs it and dies
Yeah a plated dirt bike rules (as long as your commute is less than ~20mi). Gets 75mpg, goes literally anywhere (even where it’s not supposed to), and you look cool doing it.
make the overhead train a 12 lane freeway and it’s any random metrohell in texas.
me when I cycle to school on rush hour instead of picking the car (I know I’ll be stuck if I do)
All those escooters getting in the way of my walking.
Hey! I’m walking here.
All those walkers getting in the way of my escootering.
Hey! I’m escootering here.
just one more lane bro. I promise bro just one more lane and it’ll fix everything bro. bro, just one more lane. please just one more, one more lane and we can fix this whole problem bro, bro cmon just give me one more lane i promise bro, bro bro please ! just need one more lane
You know what would actually fix traffic? TRAINS
Compromise: Steam trains.
Upvoted for Alan Fischer reference in the wild. His bits go so much harder than pretty much anyone else in urbanist youtube
What about adding a lane?
We’ve already added a lane.
Yes, but what about a second lane?
I don’t think he’s ever tried adding a second lane, Pippin.
This is probably one of the top ten most incredibly based pictures ever. I love it. Thank you for brightening my day, OP
Needs trees.
While, yes, it does, urban and suburban sprawl is far, far worse for trees. Go to your local Wal Mart super center and, not counting the garden center, tell me how many trees there are per acre in the parking lot. Now multiply that by every big box store and mile of stroad and highway.
I’m going to bike to a restaurant in 15 minutes after work today, maps says it takes cars 30 :)
My favourite thing to do is ‘race’ the person who offers me a ride home all the time. Like, I appreciate the offer but trust me, I will be home before you could get me there AND I’ll get to enjoy the sunshine.
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Met my coworkers after work yesterday. 21 minute bike or car ride by the GPS. By the time they parked downtown it was 35 mins, meanwhile I shaved a minute off the GPS :) feels goooood
hwo do I get to walkable city and live there
Check out Strong Towns. They’re a policy advocacy group that’s focused on helping people influence policy at the local level to make their towns livable again. I’m a part of my local strong towns group, and they’re absolutely great. We’re getting the ball rolling, organizing with other local activist groups, meeting with local politicians to understand our local challenges better, and all while receiving a lot of support from the mother ship organization. Meanwhile, our town isn’t some metropolis, it’s only 90,000 people.
If that isn’t your thing, just start going to city council or county board of supervisor meetings and start making public comments there. It’s a good way to meet with other policy advocates in your community and start networking with them.
Stop making it a life-goal to go 1.5 million dollars in debt to own a stucco home in a vast ocean of identical stucco homes and maybe buy some property by a small town and sacrifice the luxury of convenience and being able to get doordash whenever you want and instead have a little garden or something.
If the market decided that living in suburban hell wasn’t profitable anymore, they would stop paving over vast tracts of land to unroll a sea of terracotta roofs as far as you can see like a rolling ocean of crippling debt and HOA fines.
- Buying a property outside a small town defeats the purpose of being in a walkable city, no?
- Why are you assuming I want to live in a “stucco house”, or a single family home, at all?
- Why are you assuming I order doorfash, and dont have a garden (I do have a garden, and I have never ordered from doorfash.)
you dont have to assume the worst all the time fella. this is lemmy, not twitter.
sacrifice the luxury of convenience and being able to get doordash whenever you want
Not necessary. I live in Manhattan and the street canyons are full of doordasher ebikes, and grocery store isles are jammed with instacarter trailer carts which they then hitch up to more ebikes.
Just have to be European. Live on the south coast in the UK and life is so easy here.
Walking.
that solves the first part if I walk for like 4 days, but how do I live there short of being homeless?
Ah. Well, the problem is that we’ve made building new housing units nearly impossible through decades of unforced errors at the local level in nearly all of our cities, as well as bullshit ass zoning. It’s not even remotely impossible to undo, but a lot of people don’t recognize it as the root of the problem. Again, check out Strong Towns, we’re working to walk these errors back and make our cities places that are built for people again.
- With regards to zoning, nobody in their right mind is asking to let DuPont put a rocket fuel factory next to an elementary school. Many zoning codes have really terrible and not evidence based practices codified, such as enforcing single family housing sprawl, ensuring that you MUST drive to go buy a loaf of bread, and requiring outrageous parking requirements often 2-3x over what’s needed in practice.
Thanks, I’ll look and see if theres a local chapter in my area. Ive been meaning to get more involved in local politics, its just hard to find a comfortable group of people to get in with in my experience. Would love to find out I can actually join people in something meaningful :)
Yeah, do it! Speaking from personal experience, it can be a little scary at first, but it’s not even a tenth as bad as you think. It’s actually a surprisingly social experience.
Do you know anything about starting a local chapter? The closest one to me is 2 hours away :(
https://actionlab.strongtowns.org/hc/en-us/categories/360004233911-Local-Conversations
You are not required to be a member to start a chapter, and from all that I’ve seen, they’re very supportive of you send an email asking for guidance. I would start by going to local city councils or board of supervisor meetings, put flyers up at the library and small coffee shops or anywhere else you can put up flyers, and start holding regular meetings at least once a month
I was going to type out a reply, but conditional_soup already said everything worth saying.
The world is changing and so can yours. Ten years ago tourists were always shooting videos of people biking to work. Today it’s (somewhat) normal to them. Look at Paris.
complicated
Tokyo
Bought an eBike last weekend because I’d rather be soaked by rain than sitting in traffic to/from work. It feels damn good to finally be the person in an otherwise empty bike lane, passing countless cars that are going nowhere.
I love my ebike.
I’ve been big into bikes forever, but the ebike just makes it super convenient to bike to work.
Party on, party on!
otherwise empty bike lane
Over here in New York, everyone got an e-bike and now we get bike jams in the bike lane during commute hour. Dunno how I should feel about it. Aladeen? :(: Still faster than a car for sure.
> mfw I live in Walkable city > want to walk around in it > walkway is a fucking tiny narrow corridor of concrete > be forced to walk between congested car traffic and escooters, with no pedestrian crossings anywhere > get run over by some clueless skateboarderMy city is super walkable with great walking and biking infrastructure. Still get run over by some fuck on a bicycle or escooter on the sidewalk or zebra crossing.
I got hit by a car recently crossing a street. I’d rather get hit by an escooter.
Oh absolutely. Far less likely though*, since car drivers actually have accountability here. As soon as there’s no fear of punishment, ppl will be assholes. I’d rather people don’t be assholes. Also, one sidewalk cyclist broke my glasses and I couldn’t afford new ones, another one hit me on a way where my hip still creaks years later. So again, I’d just rather every participant in traffic abides by the rules and doesn’t endanger others, even if the danger isn’t life threatening.
Judging by the ghost bikes, shoes, walkers, etc, that I see around me, accountability doesn’t prevent cars from hitting pedestrians either :(
They even have a crime called “vehicular manslaughter” because juries weren’t willing to hold drivers accountable for the wrongful death of others without a much reduced penalty…
I agree everyone should be held accountable, including traffic engineers.
Agreed.
- Slower
- Squishier
