Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoAmericans can no longer afford their carswww.newsweek.comexternal-linkmessage-square83fedilinkarrow-up1340arrow-down110
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minus-squareDreamlandLividity@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-28 months agoAs a young adult in Europe (the place where walking and biking safely is possible), my rules were: Rent apartment close to work Don’t need car and I still commute to work faster then my collegues I am entirely convinced US cities were design by the car lobby.
minus-squarenovibe@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months agoNot built by, but rebuilt by. And all the tram networks were bought and purposefully destroyed by car and oil companies in the early 20th century.
minus-squareCoreOffset@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months agoThose are good rules. American cities used to be designed around reasonable things like walking and using Streetcars but then were bulldozed to make way for the automobile.
As a young adult in Europe (the place where walking and biking safely is possible), my rules were:
I am entirely convinced US cities were design by the car lobby.
Not built by, but rebuilt by. And all the tram networks were bought and purposefully destroyed by car and oil companies in the early 20th century.
Those are good rules.
American cities used to be designed around reasonable things like walking and using Streetcars but then were bulldozed to make way for the automobile.