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Okay hear me out,
Screw walkable cities, that's not enough.
We need car-hostile cities.
Paved roads. Single direction streets. Traffic cones. Traffic cones everywhere /hj. Parking lots? None! (Unless you can afford 20$/hr parking)
Bring back trams!
- Electric*, but no battery.
- Takes up road space -> can't be used by cars.
*Ik cleanliness of electricity varies from plant to plant bc of energy sources, but... no soot!
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*If you can't walk that far or the roads to the store aren't safe to walk just pretend you can and they are for the purposes of this poll.
I almost got hit by a car yesterday. I think it was my fault. I wish I lived in a more walkable city. I’m glad my speed was at mode 2 and not the usual 1. Otherwise I would have surely been crushed. It seems the intersection of diagonal death isn’t the only place where the reaper can snatch you.
I believe in shifting. It feels weird, knowing somewhere I didn’t survive that.
I think we are winning. Big leftist creators on TikTok are calling out nimbys and then we have leftist accounts calling nimbys shit libs bc they rightfully associate NIMBYs with rich white moderate liberals. The lead paint caucus might think they represent the left but only on surface level stuff about being mad about developers, not the actual substance that matters now that we have successfully negatively polarized enough leftists against nimbys. I’ve seen this play out in Portland. The left there is very pro housing and Jo Ann Hardesty wanted to turn 82nd into a transited oriented development corridor. Rene Gonzales is supported by the rich boomer cranks who hate transit and housing near them. The left in Minneapolis is also pretty pro housing while the right wingers are against it. AOC and Ilhan Omar are embracing zoning reform and TOD/parking reform. Even in NYC, the guy who was endorsed by Cornel West and was an exonerated member of the Central Park Five and supports criminal Justice reform is big on zoning reform as well. The last hold out for left NIMBYism seems to be SF and LA. Meanwhile, Emeryville is the model for California.
Yet another reason that we need extremely urban and walkable cities. If you could do everything within a 5-15 minute walk or bike ride, you wouldn't need all of these gas stations, thus these gas companies wouldn't need to be doing so much to create the gasoline, in turn slowing climate change. I can think of very few downsides for creating more walkable cities.
