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I can imagine but wait until you visit a walkable city!
by b2fel 1y ago
I can imagine but wait until you visit a walkable city!
- kulahan 1y agoMan this is America. If people had any interest in walking, our national health picture would look very different. Even huge swathes of people voting for public transit in the US are doing so because they want everyone ELSE off the highway.
- 0xAFFFF 1y agoIt's not just about a lack of interest in walking. If your infrastructure is extremely hostile to walking, it's outright dangerous and unreliable and force people out of it.
- hnthrow90348765 1y ago>our national health picture would look very different. It wouldn't, you'd need to change the food industry for that to happen.
- kulahan 1y agoNo, consistent exercise is more than enough to make a significant difference. I didn’t say it would be fixed, I said it would be very different.
- johnnyanmac 1y agoyou know what they say: you can't outrun a bad diet.
- Marsymars 1y agoI’ll take that still. It’s bananas to me that more people aren’t in favour of public transit only for that reason.
- johnnyanmac 1y agoTHe history doesn't help. LA is a huge area and California is traditionally very rocky and hilly. The great weather and modern industrialism is the reason people continued to flock here after the Gold Rush. But anyone playing Orgeon trails knows how rough getting to California was to begin with. There's definitely amenities that can be done to make LA walkable regardless, but I understand that nature did not intent for this settlement to be human friendly.
- hparadiz 1y agoLA is walkable. However I don't really like walking everywhere or taking public transportation so LA is the perfect city for me because it has many municipal places I can park my car and then walk around. Let me explain LA to you since you clearly don't understand it. LA is a combination of many smaller cities. Each one, on it's own is a small micro city with everything you would expect. You can live in Santa Monica, Pasadena, Burbank, Sherman oaks, West Hollywood, Ktown, Beverly Hills, Sawtelle, etc. each one of those places has a very vibrant and walkable area with cute shops and restaurants and easy public transportation. If you live in those places you don't necessarily need a car. The problem with LA is that you might want to go from one of these places to another and the walk would take a very long time because LA county is bigger than Delaware and Rhode Island. But you can walk it if you want. LA is currently the only city in North America building new subway lines. And is doing so rapidly.
- pantalaimon 1y agoIt's also mostly low density, single story housing which of course means that the distance to get anywhere will be quite substantial.
- kjkjadksj 1y agoDensity is pretty dispersed in hot pockets. You have places like koreatown with 45 thousand people a square mile.
- closewith 1y ago> LA is walkable. You and I have different definitions of walkable.
- kjkjadksj 1y agoMostly in the 70s, sunny, sidewalks everywhere, an actual street food culture, a bus network that spans the entire county and about half a dozen rail lines. Where does the goalpost have to move for people who have clearly never spent much time in LA to see it for what it is?
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- notepad0x90 1y agoHave you seen other american cities outside of NYC and Chicago? LA is walkable in a lot of places,plenty of side walks. Southern cities are particularly atrocious because even if they were walkable, the heat makes walking impractical in the summer (which can be > half of the year).
- lagniappe 1y agoSoutherner here, bless your little heart, we are fine!
- notepad0x90 1y agoNo, we're not. been wanting to take a walk for ~2 months now and couldn't because of the heat. Maybe in more inland cities it is nicer, but within ~200 miles from the ocean it is unbearable.
- bdcravens 1y agoLive in Houston, and no we're not. The only break we get from punishing heat is hurricanes and floods, but that often comes with significant power loss throughout the area, making the heat even worse.
- nunez 1y agoAlso live in Houston; the heat is uncomfortable but is nothing that some Gatorade Zero can't fix. It's a walkable enough city if you live in the loop. Not NYC walkable but not nothing. Outside of the loop; forget about it! A small price to pay for being able to wear shorts and sandals all winter!
- kylehotchkiss 1y agoThis is such a tired argument. Yes, YOU like it, that doesn't make an objective goal for every person on earth to achieve.
- mbs159 1y ago> doesn't make an objective goal for every person on earth to achieve. The walkability of cities is linked to increased happiness in people, so there actually is merit to saying that it is objectively good. Walkability encourages you to literally walk past large amounts of people, local businesses and plenty of outdoor activities that you have the opportunity to take part in.
- seanmcdirmid 1y agoThere are walkable parts of LA, just LA itself isn't very walkable. But if you confine yourself to westwood around UCLA, you can even walk all the way to Sawtelle for Japanese food (although it isn't a very nice walk).
- ndjeosibfb 1y agomaybe he doesn’t feel like stepping over needles and passed out homeless people in order to get somewhere