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  • psud@aussie.zonetoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldAmericans on vacation
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    2 months ago

    America is not the only car centric culture. What is up with all the ‘America bad’ bullshit on Lemmy lately?

    Also, I literally live next to a fully separated bike lane in an oil state…

    Because unlike other car centric places, the US federal government is actively opposed to any improvement in bicycle or walking infrastructure, though some states are willing to defy the federal government

    Add to that how the US federal government is opposed to renewable energy, opposed to protection of the environment, opposed to protection of threatened species, opposed to immigration, opposed to past immigration, opposed to assigned at birth gender nonconformity, opposed to non reproductive sexual preferences, opposed to education — especially of women

    Your oil state is probably more responsive to people’s desire to ride a bike without being killed than the US, and yours is an oil state.


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    2 months ago

    Canberra (the city, not the federal government) has been going pretty hard on urban infill for a while now, if we manage to get high enough population density then suburbs can become towns

    Now we just need to convince Australians to have babies at better than replacement rate; I don’t think it’s possible to densify in a declining population