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The first car-free community built from scratch in the US is starting to take off: 'For some, cars equal freedom, but for me, it's a restriction' (www.thecooldown.com)

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Also a huge number of people in the US travel to places that are walkable:

Disney World
Las Vegas (The strip is anyway)
DC
NYC

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

not gonna catch on as long as its sold with a price premium instead of a discount for what they save on not building and maintaining car infrastructure.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (31 children)

Why is the architecture and placement so bad tho? And narrow. Seems like a poor southern Italian village, but uglier. Or like a dark futuristic movie set.

Open walkable spaces can be pretty, does wonders for (populations) mental health.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago (6 children)

car free community

cover photo shows both a car and parking lot

I'm just being pedantic but this just shows how ingrained cars are in modern society that even "car-free" communities need them

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah, I agree with you. Being 100% without a car is hard in most cases.

And the answer I see is trains. For the amount of money that does into the car industry (+ multi lane roads, administration, maintenance, etc) we could have super fancy, comfy, fast, frequent, and cheap/free trains.

And people would have more mobility too, at a fraction of the cost and environmental damage.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Trains for long distance + trolleys and subways for local travel. There will invariably be people whose transportation needs require a private vehicle but this combo alone would clear up the majority of cars on the road in my opinion.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

UPS ain't walkin

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Also Disney is not designed for public use. It’s built to extract as much money out of you without leaving their property.