I love fedi

The funny thing is that malls as originally conceptualized likely would have solved both our gripes, as they were meant to be the central social/commercial hub of a revised version of the suburban experiment, but unfortunately that never really happened.

I agree, my core contention is that if we want to have White communities again they need to be White, and they need to be communities, and nigger- and car-infested cities are neither of those things.

White flight is certainly one factor, but many of these trends predate the great migration and are due to other factors such as corporate lobbying and the government building car infrastructure after WWII to create a short-term boom in hopes of avoiding a return to the depression without realizing the long-term liabilities, so my point is that bad urban planning is not entirely reducible to “because niggers” as many right-wingers like to claim.

Big box stores don’t, they‘re international conglomerates that don’t play nice with the rest of the community, suck business away from downtown, destroy more jobs than they create, pay subsistence wages, and to top it all off when they eventually close the building is useless for other retailers because they have deed restrictions preventing basically anyone else from using it and so it becomes yet another liability for the city.

It is expensive, but then so is maintaining road infrastructure and endless parking lots for dying malls and parasitic big box stores. I’ll admit that in smaller towns reducing car dependence may not be realistic or even as desirable - they manage to make it work in the Netherlands but that doesn’t necessarily mean it would work here, and other European countries struggle with their transportation systems. But stroads and excessive parking are a financial blight on American cities, and when they’re an active threat to the public safety of our people it’s not unreasonable to look for a better way.

Transit.

Most civil engineers would agree, but your kids shouldn’t have to worry about getting flattened while playing in their own front yard for the convenience of 4,000 Lbs death machines that don’t even really benefit because of the congestion necessarily induced by traffic signals. Streets have always belonged to the people anyway, “jaywalking” is a forced meme invented by the auto lobby as a band-aid fix as part of their efforts to quell more substantial attempts to mitigate the dangers of cars that could cut into their profits, and you should be able to safely walk around in your own neighborhood, go to shops, and socialize without having to drive five miles to get anywhere or having to worry about drunk drivers hitting you at high speed. Traffic calming saves lives and improves quality of life for everyone.

Ironically in large part because of budgetary problems due to over-built car infrastructure leading to inefficient land use and just being unsustainably expensive to maintain. Every square inch of pavement is a liability, not an asset, yet because of the auto lobby and utopian economic policies parking lots eat up half the land in our cities. Strong Towns writes about this, there’s also a short video about the economics of bad urban planning here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfQUOHlAocY

Not for commutes. Although interestingly, Waze actually highlighted the safety problems with a lot of residential streets when it came out because it routed people around congested arterials and through obscure local streets increasing vehicle counts and people speeding through neighborhoods, which if the streets were built for human-friendly speeds of 10-15Mph wouldn’t be an issue. That might sound absurdly slow, but the good news is you wouldn’t even need stop signs and would maintain a higher overall speed than someone traveling 30Mph who has to stop for two minutes at every red light. For high traffic intersections you can build roundabouts.

Congestion isn’t a new problem, and this has been observed everywhere that they’ve tried just adding more lanes. Traffic doesn’t just spawn out of nowhere, a lot of it is people who had been taking less direct but also less congested routes but switched to the arterial because of its increased capacity, for instance.

Not everything revolves around niggers, and no that’s the whole point is that the road isn’t underspecced, cars are just space-inefficient especially in our hierarchical road network, and adding more space is just inviting people to fill it back up.

To be fair, the engineers are just as retarded thinking that adding more lanes until the end of time won’t just create induced demand, clogging up the highway even worse than it was before. Or failing to see how funneling every car in the city onto a handful of arterials from all the local and connector streets will inevitably overwhelm their capacity, no different from a river flooding when inundated with a host of seemingly inconsequential streams and rivlets after heavy rain.

yeah same lol curious how Redditors get so butthurt about government protecting kids from filth though 🤔

No one except the Red Cross apparently. Literally what good did this do them?

Still can’t get over the cultural vandalism of Doom having green crosses in the current official port. It’s literally just two red lines, how is that trademark-able?

Just watched it, no comment.

Been meaning to watch that video for a while, just need to find some solitude, but yeah, people are freaking out about zoomers turning to AI for all their lives’ problems but have they ever considered why? It’s merely highlighting an existing problem, which is that we do not live in a society and we’re all just atomized individuals with no social networks to help each other out with even daily life let alone the sort of fun we’ll be in for if a major supply chain disruption occurs.

“More human than human”, which is depressing because that says more about humans than it does about AI.

I hate zoning requirements