From article:

In many large urban areas, particularly those built during the late twentieth century, everyday necessities have been separated from residential life. Homes are clustered in residential zones while shops, restaurants, libraries, and workplaces are placed far away along commercial corridors or in large retail centers. The result is a city where nearly every basic activity requires driving.

On paper, this appears to increase mobility. In reality, it often reduces it.

I’m more curious where you’re at then. Because nothing that cheap here.

I wish we had those here in the US!

very true

Yep, it sucks.

Where I live here in Idaho (US) I am surrounded by nature. But when I go on walks and stuff, I can still hear all the cars around because the sound travels so far here. So annoying.

From 2025, and a great read. Excerpt that really stands out to me:

One theory is that growing up in a world dominated by vehicles puts them in a collective blind spot. In other words, car culture changes your brain. “It’s so endemic, it’s so pervasive, it’s so ubiquitous that people don’t recognize just how much it is all around them,” said Ian Walker, an environmental psychologist at Swansea University in the United Kingdom. “And if it’s all around you, it’s shaping your perceptions.”

Walker coined the word “motonormativity” to describe this bias, which causes people to apply laxer moral standards to driving than to other activities.

Exactly this! Scoot on a nice smooth safe street or sidewalk is pretty safe if you don’t go crazy fast. But add in cars all around you, fucked up sidewalks, etc… it can be a fucking dangerzone every day

I wish we had it in my area!

When I was growing up, I was a sci-fi nerd. I loved the idea of cool little electric cars. But the ones I’m seeing around here are huge. We’re also learning that even electric cars are fucking up the environment.

What I didn’t imagine is electric bikes and scooters. So that’s been a cool thing (I have both), but it has downsides too.

I volunteer at a local hospital, and we’ve seen a huge uptick of injuries from people riding electric scooters and bikes. The reason is that more people are on them, but our infrastructure in my city doesn’t support them very well. So people are having to ride on busted sidewalks, roads with no bike lane, etc. So a lot of people crashing them (and not wearing a helmet).

So I think the only we can really reduce car usage is to make the city unfriendly to cars. But that ain’t gonna happen here anytime soon. A strip of road near me actually was finally updated with a pretty wide bike lane last month because it’s close to a school, but holy shit, people in my neighborhood are still bitching about how we didn’t need it and it was a waste of resources. smh

Here in the US, even used shitboxes are very expensive, and you never know if it’ll break down on you or not. When I was a teen, my first car cost $700 USD. Now for evne a used piece of shit in my area, they are around $10,000 USD

Here in the US we used to do that, in the 80’s I think. But all I ever see around here is big ass SUVs now.

Fair point, but no way could I afford payments like that.

You even upvoted your own comment with your alts! You must really like cars.

He creates alts, then makes those strange reports while downvoting every single post I make, regardless of subject.

In DMs, he says I’m here to destroy Lemmy. I guess I’m doing that by talking about how cars suck?

So fucking glad I got rid of my car and I don’t have a monthly car payment. But holy fuck, are some people really paying that much for their cars?!

I read about stuff like this a lot, but it’s never happened to me. So maybe my city is nicer than most, or people here seem to ignore people a lot more.

I have a car (actually a truck), and I choose to use it less. The winters here can get fierce, so I’m not ready to give up on having one, but I rarely use it. I walk or scoot everywhere I go and I’ve never had an issue. So it’s crazy when I see posts like this. What are the hecklers even trying to prove?! lol

My scoot is pretty heavy duty and powerful. I was really meaning just one or two bags of groceries. Just enough that it’s uncomfortable to fit into my backpack, but nothing super heavy. 2 gallons of milk, cans of veggies, bread, etc. My trip to store is on smooth sidewalks. 1. 3 miles. Flat area.

I jury rigged up something last night using a friends cloth wagon, and attached it to my belt. And it worked just fine, so I may just stick with that. Just looks silly, so I’m still gonna work on a better solution. Thank you!

That looks fucking sweet!!

Bruh, they are vegan bean burgers and vegan hot dogs.