• 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    Catch-22, don’t build Suburbia (aka don’t live in and pay for it) AND drive less. On a positive note, using public transit and sharing space has the opposite effect.

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      3 months ago

      Once again, many governments refuse to build anything except suburbia. This isn’t just a simple matter of personal choice. City planning, roads, transit, density, and taxation all need to be addressed to build our cities better again.

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        3 months ago

        And it took a century of constantly expanding population to build it out this way. We don’t have a century to fix it, nor do we have a quickly expanding population to drive it. We have to somehow fix things in place

    • pugsnroses77@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      There is nowhere for hours around where my partner goes to school that is even remotely walkable in a livable sense. I couldve chosen to live “downtown” but its a downtown meant to enternain the burbies, i would still have to drive to the grocery store, etc. i cannot just move until he graduates.