626
build walkable communities (slrpnk.net)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
102 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Edit: of course this is satire. The power of the reading comprehension devil grows stronger every day 😢

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 57 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This has clearly got to be satire, but the issue with "walkable communities" is the zoning. You need commerce close to those houses - a coffee shop, a bakery, small supermarket, dry cleaner, small doctor's office, a couple of restaurants, etc.

Not a huge strip of stores, just a few every other block.

Ditch the school buses, and instead create actual bus routes that the kids, but also everyone else, can hop on and off to get around.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 6 child comments
    •
  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I presume US schools have to buy/rent busses and pay bus drivers? Specifically to drive kids to/from school?
    Instead of the council (or whatever) subsidising routes that connect new builds to schools, and giving under 16s free bus travel.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Yes, in the smaller cities and towns where things tend to be more spread out. The is not reliable public transportation.

    Big cities like NYC and LA don't normally bus children to school. They are usually close to the school and can walk or take public transit.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Very mixed. Just for my kids ….

    • walked to elementary school
    • car to middle school (because they classified it as walkable but it was very long plus had to cross two major streets)
    • car to high school - private school several towns away. School was Actually on the subway … the other direction
  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    In my Australian town of half a million people (Canberra) our public transport is practically all buses, the same buses do the school services. We're pretty car based but still I have 3 commercial places within 20 minutes of walking, covering medical, groceries, two butchers, hairdressers, a few independent restaurants, a few chain takeaways. Our nearest pub closed years ago, taxes on alcohol got too high for people to meet a few times a week at a pub

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent