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> But the world is mot designed for pedestrian peasants. Fortunately, small parts of the world, mostly centralised around anglophone North America and a few ot
by sofixa 2y ago
> But the world is mot designed for pedestrian peasants.
Fortunately, small parts of the world, mostly centralised around anglophone North America and a few other "developing/developed rapidly in an age where cars seemed like the best thing since sliced bread, so everyone else was left behind" countries. And for the latter category, countries like Sri Lanka or Taiwan, it's still usually not as egregious as in anglophone North America because sometimes there are leftovers from before when everyone used to have to walk; not everything was bulldozed like it was in US and Canada. (Probably just because they had less time at destroying everything to remake it for cars).
But in a lot of the world, pedestrians are taken into account, and often even prioritised for.
- the_sleaze_ 2y agoI believe that early on there was heavy influence to build highways and suburbs to support the burgeoning US auto industry. It really makes no sense otherwise, from a planning perspective. The infrastructure alone to support sewer, gas and electric makes absolutely no sense with such low density residential.