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That is great! I hate the car culture in the US. It is crazy that if you want to go out for an ice cream, or just buy something really quick, you have to drive
by Safyia 9y ago
That is great! I hate the car culture in the US. It is crazy that if you want to go out for an ice cream, or just buy something really quick, you have to drive in the horrible traffic most US cities have and find parking, which is sparse and expensive or spend money on an uber/lyft. It is just not worth it, since you might as well pay for two hour delivery on a ton of things. I wish there were more pedestrian zones, more walkable malls and less cars/traffic.
- Waterluvian 9y agoThis blew my mind when visiting my brother in Texas. Want to do anything? Get in your car, get on the highway.
- yunesj 9y agoIt's sad that oppressive zoning regulations are still so popular.
- spike021 9y agoNot sure how that's car culture at all. There's nothing wrong with cars. If anything it's how they're used and how the automobile infrastructure (roads/highways/etc.) is constructed.
- Stefan-H 9y agoI think that what would generally be construed as "car culture" would be "how they're used and how the automobile infrastructure (roads/highways/etc.) is constructed".
- spike021 9y agoI think that's generalization, to be honest. The parent comment's intended (I believe) use of "car culture" implies anything that encompasses cars. When I wrote "how they're used and how the automobile infrastructure (roads/highways/etc.) is constructed", it was with respect to that parent comment's context. In reality there are more purposes to cars. We shouldn't therefore apply some aspects of cars to the broad meaning of car culture.
- Roodgorf 9y ago> implies anything that encompasses cars. No, I believe that they're talking about the ubiquitous need of a car for any given task. It would be nice if areas were designed such that a vehicle wasn't required to do more or less anything, be it restaurants, entertainment, general shopping, etc. I'm not really sure what you mean by "We shouldn't therefore apply some aspects of cars to the broad meaning of car culture." It sounds like simply semantics at this point, that is, you infer a different meaning of "car culture" than the OP presents, but I don't feel that detracts from the point about the constructed necessity of cars.
- rconti 9y agoThere's not any transit around Santana Row that I know of, other than buses.
- ghaff 9y agoSantana Row is a mostly upscale shopping complex with hotel and luxury housing attached. On a nice evening, there are pleasant outdoor eating options and it generally was designed to have more of a walkable area than most complexes of this type. But it's really not much like an authentic town center in the types of amenities it has and, while you can walk to a number of restaurants, I expect you'd still have to end up driving for most things. The area as a whole is not very walkable and there are limited transit options.
- faster 9y agoThe Santana Row developers thought pedestrian areas were cool, but for whatever reason they built roads right through the middle of their faux-pedestrian zones. Because you can't make people to get out of their cars at the edge and actually walk?
- 086421357909764 9y agoI can't even begin to count the number of times i've seen someone almost hit in front of the container store / best buy.
- FiveSquared 9y agoThe traffic in the faux-pedestrian areas (drivers) is even worse
- ghaff 9y agoAt a minimum, some people aren't very mobile. Others just don't want to walk far. So now you have to run golf carts of some sort which many who would use them just don't feel like dealing with and which start to degrade a pedestrian-only experience. Just excluding people probably works for a city core where it's hard to drive. Less so for an upscale shopping area.