i find it fascinating how Americans secretly love walkable towns.
Where do they vacation? Disneylands, Makinac island, NY, Chicago, or go to iconic walkable cities overseas like London, Paris…
but the idea of enjoying something line that throughout their entire life seems propostrotous. they gotta have their 2 ton trucks.
The average American doesn’t vacation. In the past ten years, the only travel I’ve done was to attend two funerals and one wedding. Vacations are for the rich, and nice areas are only for the rich. We secretly love walkable towns like we secretly love Buckingham Palace, we like to dream that one day, we’ll be able to afford it too.
The only reason my town is affordable is because it’s shitty, and improving it would price me out of living here, so I don’t want to improve it.
I would like to point out that the likes of walmart and amazon have, like the mosquitos they are, sucked dry the money that used to circulate around smaller towns, and that might otherwise be used for a swim center or something.
I say this because step number one to fixing these places is bringing the money back.
Step two might be price locking rent and/or just taking land out of the hands of landlords and housing firms.
The US was designed for cars specifically, unlike European cities that have been around since 1150 or 1288 or 1467 or whatever. So, we see how well it works there but it’s not quite the same here.
The adduction to massive trucks isn’t just for traitor lunatics. It’s just like a rural farmer in the Nederlands with their tractor. It’s how things are set up.
most cities in the US predates cars. but countless towns and small cities that were walkable were practically entirely demolished to turn them into parking lots. whole neighborhoods were demolished to make highways (guess the colour).
some before/after pictures are depressing as fuck.
like three US was entirely peppered with (what we would now call) European style towns.
I’d rather go on vacation to the middle of nowhere where I can’t see any other people.
Large SUV and giant truck drivers still bemoaning the tiny spaces used by cyclists
One can only hope that SUV was transporting 7 people.
Throughout its lifespan, yes, it might.
That’s ridiculous. They absolutely pick up their parents from the airport every Thanksgiving!
I really like those stealth bike racks where they put a car shape on the road facing side so that the cars don’t get upset that they lost a potential parking spot.
They’ll never see through this clever ruse;. Most cars have pretty poor eyesight; the only way they’ll figure it out is if they honk at it, and it doesn’t respond convincingly.
the only way they’ll figure it out is if they honk at it, and it doesn’t respond convincingly.
Just needs a sound-activated arm showing the middle finger to pop out of the fake window.
Like a decoy to a duck, the problems only start when the car attempts to mate with it
No 1 rule of the concrete jungle, when they’re in heat do not honk back even if it’d be *really * funny. And if they’re randy enough to be seeping fluid out of the exhaust pipe , . . . I pray for you.
To be fair, you can fit 7 people in an suv. Picture would have been more effective if there were more bikes than how many people that can fit in an SUV. I agree with the message though.
You can fit 7 people in an SUV if they’re all going to the same place. You could say “isn’t that what a bus is?” but a bus has way more space, is happy to frequently stop, is much more fuel efficient per pserson, and is part of a larger network.
That assumes every seat is filled.
Aside from what everyone else said, not every spot is taken up in that bike rack, and the SUV is still larger than that bike rack.
Depends on the SUV as well. My RAV-4 is considered an SUV, but uncomfortably fits only 5 unless you also want 2 people to squash themselves into the trunk, and it’s big brother, the Highlander, isn’t much better. My dad just replaced his Yukon (also known as a Suburban or Escalade depending on the brand and time it was made), and that could fit 8 people relatively comfortably, but it’s also a bigger car than the one pictured - bigger even than the 4-door Tachoma he replaced it with.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is really funny for a dystopian nightmare documentary…
That SUV holds 7 people.
That SUV holds 7 people.
How often?
No idea. How often is the rack full with 7 bikes?
I’d wager the bike rack generally has more bikes than that SUV has passengers
The average SUV out there doesn’t hold 7 people at all times
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