Gregory's Server@sinituulia Car culture in North America is truly next-level shit. Just look at the screaming hissy fits you get from people who misunderstand "fifteen minute cities".
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 @sinituulia I live in a city that's pretty close to being a 15 minute city. People still drive cars. (Too much, for my tastes!) This is in a literal dictatorship and people haven't had their cars taken away from them. It's so utterly frustrating to try to explain to the car crowd that 15 minute cities give *OPTIONS* that don't include cars, not effin' MANDATES.  @zdl It's really really frustrating. Because of general empathy for how much misery the car centred cities cause without people even realising it, as well as the climate. |
@zdl Yeah... I once watched a new urbanist (of the Strong Towns variety, who are usually pretty reasonable) try to explain to a disabled person who couldn't walk very well why everybody *else* not being in cars and being able to walk to places 15 minutes away would make their own disabled life easier. It simply did not connect to any sort of brain lobe beyond the fear lobe, and the worry that someone would take away their car. I suppose they just had no idea anything else was possible, because they'd never seen it anywhere! Kind of sad.
@zdl Yeah... I once watched a new urbanist (of the Strong Towns variety, who are usually pretty reasonable) try to explain to a disabled person who couldn't walk very well why everybody *else* not being in cars and being able to walk to places 15 minutes away would make their own disabled life easier. It simply did not connect to any sort of brain lobe beyond the fear lobe, and the worry that someone would take away their car. I suppose they just had no idea anything else was possible, because they'd...