• biddy@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    When everything is built to only be convenient by car, of course it’s going to be more convenient by car, and most people are going to use cars. That’s the entire problem.

    If your local grocery store was 5 minutes walk or bike away in a dense city without highways everywhere and unlimited free parking, you would walk or cycle instead.

    We aren’t blaming individuals here, the entire culture and built world in the US is fundamentally broken.

    • saloe@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      That’s the issue though: it isn’t that way and in order to convince folks that they actually want it you have to overcome my snarky roleplay. This is the attitudes of most American suburbanites. They won’t want a car-free life because they can’t even conceive of what that would look like, it is an entirely foreign concept