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How about designing neighborhoods in such a way that there is a grocery store within a 15-minute walk from your house? And place a school next to it, so you can
by crote 3y ago
How about designing neighborhoods in such a way that there is a grocery store within a 15-minute walk from your house? And place a school next to it, so you can grab some groceries when you drop off your kid.
That'd already massively reduce the amount of driving required, as you suddenly no longer need to drive a few miles for your groceries. And because you don't arrive by car the grocery store doesn't need a huge parking lot either.
- sokoloff 3y agoThis subthread is about “how would the grocery store fill its shelves without roads?” more than it is “how could we avoid the final driving by grocery customers?”
- crote 3y agoThe roads are mostly filled with cars, though. If we only needed roads for trucks to stock stores, we could get rid of 90% of them. Nobody is proposing getting rid of all roads, they clearly have value. People are just proposing making it possible to live without requiring a car for something as basic as grocery shopping. As long as cities are built from a car-centric perspective first, they will require a car to live in.