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’d rather go on vacation to the middle of nowhere where I can’t see any other people.
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.
posting this on fuckcars i can only assume you’re either wilfully spreading misinformation or you can’t be arsed to do basic fact checking on your claims
Not to mention how much dead space is needed in front and behind the parking spot for that SUV.
And in all likelihood, that is a single occupancy vehicle, so the amount of space needed is even more obscene.
Large SUV and giant truck drivers still bemoaning the tiny spaces used by cyclists
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is really funny for a dystopian nightmare documentary…
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.
That SUV holds 7 people.
The average SUV out there doesn’t hold 7 people at all times
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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
