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These threads tend to devolve into, "Americans are so unsophisticated everyone else in the world is banning cars and turning downtown into walkable utopia" but
by neither_color 1y ago
These threads tend to devolve into, "Americans are so unsophisticated everyone else in the world is banning cars and turning downtown into walkable utopia" but what they really mean by rest of the world is a few crowded European cities. If you look at all the new rich mega cities built in the Middle East and East Asia cars continue to exist alongside good public transit as aspirational status icons and the preferred means of transit for people who can afford them. Cars are never going away.
- mancerayder 1y agoThere are plenty of cars in Paris and London. It just feels as though people walking are a priority more than they are in NYC. Cars feel compelled more often outside of NYC, where they also block intersections and park next to crosswalks and block visibility.
- bee_rider 1y agoThe only well-designed cities in the US are college towns (and even then, only some of them).
- mancerayder 1y agoMore compelled not to stop (post-edit update)
- eGP9jDq_nw 1y agoThese USian supremacist talking points are the prime reason minorities feel unwelcome on this site
- neither_color 1y agoAs an American who's fluent in Spanish, I got over this "debate" about what America means by acknowledging that the word America is a homonym.
- devnullbrain 1y agoTokyo?
- neves 1y agoOther societies decide where they spend money. It can be public transportation, paid maternity leave or universal healthcare. America addiction to cars is a human construction, so it can be changed.