• araozu
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    8 months ago

    I really like donoteat’s video for why this is a problem

    https://piped.araozu.dev/watch?v=rseaKBPkRPU

    It’s not about the ‘feeling’ claustrophobic or not having green areas, it’s about the US’s obsession with cars and it’s consequences in the people

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      8 months ago

      I haven’t checked the video yet (but I 100% will) but that’s absolutely how I feel too. I’m from Europe and the big cities are usually easily navigated without a car. Smaller cities maybe not so much BUT, you can still kindof easily walk to ride a bike somewhere.

      I’m always surprised when watching American movies that there’s not sidewalk if you leave the city centers. That’s is absolutely incomprehensible to me lol I can walk from my city to the next 3 or 4 neighboring cities all by walking and using the sidewalk.

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        8 months ago

        The scale is the issue. You won’t find many places in Europe where the next town over is over 100 miles (200 km) away. Get even 150 miles from the coasts in the US and you can easily find places where that is the case.

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          8 months ago

          Indeed, but even within the city, I’ve seen places where the sidewalk just disappears.

          Distances are absolutely massive in the US though, yeah…

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          8 months ago

          I don’t think that’s the case. My country is also big, cities are apart by hundreds of km. But our cities still are dense, there are (almost) no suburbs, and roads are not giants. In my city (2nd largest in the country) the largest roads have 6 lanes. There is only 1 street with 8 lanes. A lot of important busy streets have 4 lanes. Most streets have only 2 lanes.

          There are still sidewalks (many streets even have more sidewalk than road), there aren’t huge parking lots everywhere, public transportation is everywhere.