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= ( Everytime I see a fuck cars or pro bicycle post I get sad, sitting in my U.S. urban city. I want to ride a bike to work, I want to use public transport but 70 minutes one way by bike is a bit too long and its still half as long as taking the bus woukd take. and no I will never shut up my gripping that a 14 mile drive should not take 2.5 hours by bus. (For context my commute is 20-30 minutes by car)
Yeah US cities wont easily be able to convert to biking. The biggest issue isnt even the transport infrastructure, its the land use. He talks about that in this video as well. If the US allowed building more compact, multi story housing mixed together with businesses, then you wouldnt be forced to travel so far to your work destination. The US needs to go from separating housing and business into zones that are 10 miles apart back to mixing them together into a beautiful heterogeneous mess where you can get to work by cycling 10-15 minutes. There needs to be sooo much mental restructuring to turn more people into YIMBY's for that to become a reality tho.
yeah, he outlines the problems really clearly and how it can be solved. I was just talking about it with some people yesterday, with the current Californa contentions about removing minimum parking requirements for affordable housing.
Alot of people are protesting turning ugly lots into affordable housing...ugh. Literally the reasons we can't have nice things. "Parking in multistory garages instead of a giant 500 car lot so there affordable housing is unacceptable, its inconvenient and it will bring in undesirable" - basically Menlo
Friend of mine lives outside LA, they used a motel 6 into temporary housing for unhoused, no problem. They went to make it housing units for said homeless, locals got pissed, fought toooth and nail, said itd bring in undeasaribles, increase crime etc etc.
Officials were confused bcs the people they where complaining about had been living there for 3 years already jus they where converting it from "motel 6" to basically an apartment building. smh.
Mixed use buildings and affordable housing without needing cars is such a dream 15-20 minutes cycle would be nice, shame its so uncommon and so disliked by some people no one gets it. To my closest store its a 10 minute drive / ~hour walk (before they canceled the bus route it was also a bit over an hour but 2 hours back) city has a quarter mile / 0.4km of bike lane and alot of streets dont have sidewalks
40k people, smh (ofc its partly because of the extensive blatant corruption here but ah)