I was sent this map without a source but I thought it was impressive nonetheless. It shows the SeaWorld parking lot in yellow. The green dot is where Orcas spend their lives.
edit: This is Seaworld San Diego, California
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To be fair, if you put the Orcas in the parking lot they’d die
Go back to sleep, dad, you need your naptime. ;-)
My dad always called it beauty rest
That’s why I don’t like zoos, sea world or similar
To be fair a lot of zoos also act as rehabilitation centres or sanctuaries for animals. These zoos either rescue animals and while they are being rehabilitated are on display for education, or sanctuaries for animals that would otherwise die in the wild so they can live their life in comfort.
There’s also no good bus route to sea world
It’s not for poors
Are you kidding? The parking fee is an astronomical part of entry fees.
Crazy thing is that 15 min away are beaches where dolphins and seals will swim with you for free. I have seen 100s of dolphins and babies. One almost jumped on me by accident.
“Accident”
Don’t forget how rapey dolphins are
Is there a bus from parking to the entrance tho? Or you have to walk there like some ant? /s
Here’s something I don’t understand about these county-devouring parking lots: why are they all one level? Is it more than twice as expensive to build and maintain even a two-level parking structure and save half the footprint?
One thing America has in abundance is land.
The other thing is greed.
So if you’re ever asking " is this option really cheaper?" The answer is that they went with the cheap option.
It is more expensive to build multilevel parking but its how the laws work. It might even be that the law required this much parking based on statistical models, which is insane if people are getting there some other way.
Imo we could reduce the size of parking lots by just requiring nearby businesses to allow unrestricted parking during their off hours.
Yes, a lot of the time it is, depending on land acquisition cost. Plus you then have some amount of additional ongoing maintenance cost for the structure which is also more than just that of a surface lot.
Cars constantly emit toxic fumes whenever they’re running. If you try to enclose a parking lot you need some extremely expensive and power-intensive ventilation. Maybe that’ll change as electric cars become more common.
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Just don’t build walls.
Its actually worse than you think. The city of san diego owns sea world’s parking lot because of the original contract. The city sets the base price, and then the corp effectively doubles it cuz ofc they do. That’s also why the parking lot is allowed to be so large but the park itself never expands. The city will pretty much always let sea world lease the land for cheap knowing they ultimately get to fix what their guaranteed returns would be. Corporate greed is extremely strong with combined with local government.
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Just another little reminder that if there is a God somewhere out there, they’re certainly not just.
And why I root for the orca when they sink people’s boats.
Well, “Aqua World” sounds better than “Concrete World”
Feels like missing the point to post this here.
Sorry, I thought it fit the theme quite clearly as it shows how a car centric infrastructure hurts us all, including animals. That huge parking lot could have been housing, or a park, or perhaps a big ass tub for them to swim in. (ps: I’m not saying they should be locked up in the first place, as the sea is right over there where they could roam freely though)
Motorism might be one of the worst things we do to ourselves, but it’s far from the worst thing we do to others. This feels like pointing out how many parking spaces it takes to operate a concentration camp.
Motorism
You really only need to say cars, the same issue doesn’t apply to motorcycles, ebikes, buses, or trains.
Perhaps a second parking lot would help you get the point?
And what point do YOU think that would be making? Because it just tells me you’re STILL missing the point. Zero parking lots wouldn’t make this image reflect any better. The parking lot in this image is a rhetorical device, and treating it like the point of the message intentionally ignores the actual point being made.
It would be good PR either way.
When I went to Disney World in Japan, there was a train stop that leads right to it. That’s the way to handle it (not drive to a pointless monorail)
This is why they maul people
I know what this thumbnail is but I won’t view it at 100% because it makes me depressed. Why are humans like this.
The yellow stuff earns the money for the green stuff.
And it’s subsidized by the local public through taxes
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And I bet that parking isn’t even free.
