WhatAmLemmy comments on The traditional suburban street design of winding roads and cul-de-sacs is just as responsible for U.S. car dependency as the distances created by sprawl, according to new Yale research.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Most suburbs in Australia have a park &/or pathway between houses every few hundred meters. The only places I can think of with bottlenecks like that are hilly areas surrounded by creeks and gorges.

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[–] CandleTiger@programming.dev 14 points 4 months ago

That sounds lovely. I wish our planners did it that way.

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago*

I was going to say, it seems like some pretty minor changes would make a huge difference. But with no sidewalks, parks or cut throughs from the beginning, it’s all private property.

I brought my kids up in a more urban environment. Not quite urban enough to replace cars, but there’s a lot available at a walk. A few years back we visited family in the suburban Midwest and my kids tried to walk to a convenience store. Wow