Driverless cars were the future but now the truth is out: they’re on the road to nowhere::The dream of these vehicles ruling the roads remains just that. Focusing on public transport would be much smarter, says transport writer Christian Wolmar

  • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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    11 months ago

    How many people live a 5 minute walk from a grocery store? I think the closest one to me is about 5 miles away in a city of 250k+. That’d be like a 4 hour round trip walk on average.

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      11 months ago

      How many people live a 5 minute walk from a grocery store?

      That’s part of what we want to change. I live a 3 min walk from the grocery store and it’s fucking glorious. Better designed cities are better for everyone.

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        11 months ago

        My main problem with this line of thinking is that our cities already exist as they are, and it would take Herculean effort from the government, citizens, and companies in order to raze and rebuild them in a more ideal way.

        My city passed mixed use zoning to tackle exactly this years ago and nothing has changed.

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      11 months ago

      Where do you live that has grocery so far apart? Are you actually in the city or like a suburb of it?

      I’m in Brooklyn. I can’t speak to all of Brooklyn but this neighborhood has a population of 100k from Wikipedia. Where my friend used to live wikipedia says is about 120k, and they had good walkable options.

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        11 months ago

        I live on the west coast where cities aren’t as dense as the boroughs of NYC or most eastern states.

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          11 months ago

          Ah. Yeah, that’s one of the reasons I don’t want to live there. Too sprawled out.