Land Value Tax would fix this
Removing mandatory parking spaces would also help.
Based Georgist.
this is a certified r/urbanhell moment
For real, just sealed up ground and nothing in walking distance.
/c/fuck_cars
Sad how car citric our cities have become. But even worse was in Yellowstone and you can’t get anywhere without a car and traffic backs up and you stuck while everyone sitting in their running cars spraying the shitty fumes in the air.
car citric
You don’t have horses?
Without looking, I’m pretty sure that’s Houston, TX near the arena (whose name now escapes me after almost a decade away). I moved to a place with great public transit and could never go back to driving all the time.
What are some good public transit places in the US?
I don’t know, honestly; I moved to urban Japan.
I live in urban Spain, and I can confirm that good public transit is great. You can even travel between cities, and that’s actually really nice for teenagers who can’t drive or afford cars. Also, the huge traffic jams that form in rush hours are getting smaller due to people using the subway or trains.
For anyone who lives in cities with half responsible urban planning, let me tell you: It’s worse than you can imagine. It’s genuinely unwalkable (I’ve tried, don’t have a car) especially in the summer when you have zero protection from the sun. Also, this is technically the “downtown” with all the commercial/industrial areas. It’s hard enough to walk through here, the distance between your 1M+ house deep in the suburbs to here is ten times greater, maybe it’ll have sidewalks, or a bike path if you’re really lucky.
Give me a godamn concrete jungle, we’ll discuss aesthetics and blocking out light and the view out the window and all that later, at the very least you can physically access places you need to go.
There are a few gems. I’ve lived in Pittsburgh all my life. Our geography and age of the city forced our hand that most everywhere is still walkable, and not completdly car-centric. My partner walks about 3-5 miles a day, and can bus to just about anywhere. We only have a light rail that connects the suburbs, and the rest of the city to the east is cut off other than busses, but it works.
Downtown has some highways that intersect but they’re a spaghetti mess and often involve needing to cut across 4 lanes on a bridge right after you exit a tunnel. Take a look at our map and you’ll probably see what I mean. There’s a few semblances of a grid in certain neighborhoods, but most of the streets are all over the place.
I love our house to death though. We’re still in the city and have a hundred different things to do all the time, but it’s tucked away on a dead end street in the woods with only one neighbor, who is about 100+ feet away. We can see the river from our front stoop and frequently see lots of wildlife, birds of prey like hawks and vultures, deer, turkeys, groundhogs, you name it. The house is built into the side of a mountain so the first floor, which is where our bedroom is, is naturally cool because there’s over a story of retaining walls surrounding the house so it’s basically underground. I haven’t had air conditioning for over a decade.
Yeah no, European tech wages are garbage. I also love cars, we have big open roads here.
I am a bit jealous of the autobahn though.
It’s odd to see people hate cars. How you can have no interest in driving or your car is weird.
