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.
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.
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I’d bet that a lot of that inefficiency was built in as a precondition of its passage. That’s how it works in red states. Let blue islands implement “woke” policies, but only in ways that kneecap them from the beginning, so you can campaign against their “failure” in a few years.
Edited for clarity.
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There’s also inherrent difficulty when the city is so spread out (The Grand Parkway outer loop has a 60-mile diameter, compared to Paris’s 15), and walking outside is a health hazard 3-4 months out of the year.
@chiliedogg
I understand the impulse to call them inherent, but they’re really just consequences of the same bad policy that kept people off public transit for 60 years.
What’s a concrete, real way to fix these cities that doesn’t require millions of people to give up their homes to move into more-expensive apartments they don’t own, addresses the fact that being outside for more than a few minutes simply isn’t safe for a significant portion of the population for almost half the year, and doesn’t significantly add to commute times?
I don’t live in the US so maybe I’m mistaken but in my opinion a possibility could be :
Wait for a small group of houses in the suburbs to be available (preferably towards the center) and transform them in convenience stores, schools, office space, etc
Next you can link multiple suburbs like that with train/tram or metro for exemple. And you can even leave roads connecting zones for delivery or for people needing to go to another town or things like that
Couple that to a good public transport system overall and now you’re living in a space were there’s less danger due to car circulation, you don’t need to drive multiple km to do groceries, kids can walk(or commute via PT) to school, etc
Edit: Naturally this would not be feasible in a year or two but I can easily see this implemented in 5 to 10 year time
Do you think we don’t have offices, schools, and C-stores in the suburbs?
We also have sidewalks, bike lanes, walkable shopping districts, etc, but in Texas they don’t get used because it’s 110° for months at a time and you don’t want to have to take a shower every time you change locations.
But the problem is those C-stores and small offices don’t bring the jobs required to support the suburbs. Most people have to work in the city, so they have to commute, and getting from their house to the office is what creates traffic.
@chiliedogg wow this is a nice summary from which to start defining possible solutions. Off the top of my head, it would be low-rise residential co-op ownership clusters with adjoining, enclosed spaces like small Milan gallerias. Residential clusters will be connected by main commercial streets with offices and stores. Cluster groups form towns and cars would only be allowed to travel between towns but not within. Millions of people still need to transition to this, there’s no way around that.
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Implement mixed-use zoning with rent controls, and I think you’ll find that not everybody wants to have a lawn.
And do I need to explain why being outside for several minutes isn’t as much of an issue in places with lots of tall buildings?
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