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Yea, great. You're going to "get out of the city" and get into nature (actually a sterile suburb). Now you're driving to work every day, making a million people
by woah 5y ago
Yea, great. You're going to "get out of the city" and get into nature (actually a sterile suburb). Now you're driving to work every day, making a million people in the city miserable with your exhaust, noise, danger, and huge expanses of wasted road space.
Cities are only "noisy, dirty and crowded" because of cars. The noise is self-explanatory, the dirt is also (car tires cover everything in a thin layer of black dust). Cars also make cities more crowded because of the immense amount of space they take up. Trains and bikes can transport people using 1/10th to 1/100th of the road space of cars. Reducing streets to train lines and bike paths would allow cities to reclaim around 75% of the road area (2 lanes of parking and 2 lanes of traffic reduced to one lane for bikes and deliveries).
- BitwiseFool 5y ago>"Cities are only "noisy, dirty and crowded" because of cars" This is hyperbole. Throughout history cities have always been noisy, dirty, and crowded. Even in very dense cities with limited car traffic there is still an abundance of grime.
- woah 5y agoBefore cars, horses were pooping on the street. Nobody is suggesting going back to horses.
- vanilla_nut 5y agoWhy would getting out of the city mean moving to an awful suburb? With remote work, you can move anywhere with internet access these days. But agreed: cars don’t work in cities. We need to create more bike and pedestrian paths and get rid of a LOT of streets, roads, and highways to fix US cities.
- ghaff 5y agoA lot of people want access to cities without living in a city. You can do that from relatively rural places but they're further out.