#fuckcars

  • ebc@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    So you patiently wait for your little white man signal, and as soon as it finally comes on (after 2 full cycles of the traffic lights) you start crossing only to get honked at by some lady who wants to turn right on her red light…

  • تحريرها كلها ممكن@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    In the past we used to design our cities to be walkable because there was mo other sensible way. Now we build for cars and everything at the human level ends up far away separated by endless parking lots.

    • Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Simcity/Cities Skyline players too.

      Can appreciate the sex appeal of infrastructure while also recognizing its stupid and shouldnt exist outside of a video game :D

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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        1 year ago

        Personally, I even think it’s kinda stupid for Skylines to force me to build along a road. I grew up with SimCity; roads helped, but were not actually required because it did actually simulate people walking to a degree.

      • Ooops@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        Wasn’t SimCity the game series that basically cheated and massively scaled down streets and parking spots because they realize exactly no one would like this even remotely realistic?

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      1 year ago

      Not only that but society has become more lazy over the years, and it got worse thanks to the pandemic

  • Andy293@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    This looks like in cities skyline when I forgot to put in a pedestrian walkway and I can’t really change the streetlayout anymore

    • emptyother@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, that place looks like a perfect excuse to build an over-engineered, spagetti-shaped pedestrian walkway.

  • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    My reaction to this was “but there’s obviously going to be a footbridge”, followed by “wait, really?”

    I guess that second thought just about sums up North American infrastructure

  • spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    “The shortest distance between two points is a straight line”

    “Yeah, but that’s too expensive, I like mine better. What’s wrong with it?”

    gestures wildly at photo THE WHOLE THING

  • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Looking at Maps, it’s a 7 hour walk to my office. Or, two hour bike ride. Or, take 3 busses and a ride share in 2 hours. Or, a 30 minute drive in a car.