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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

If only the world were so simple.

[-] Moneo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It actually really is that simple. Design cities and towns so that kids can safely commute to school on their own and you've solved the problem.

[-] Furball@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

What if, like in much of the country, they don’t live in a city or town?

[-] Gabu@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Go live in a civilized country, then.

[-] Furball@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

Excuse me? My mother grew up in the countryside. Just because you’ve never seen a field before doesn’t mean you get to call other people uncivilized

[-] Moneo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

100% agree please don't attribute this person's comments with the urbanist movement.

Urbanists want cities & towns to be better places to live for everyone, we want to improve the finances of towns and people, we want to improve the health & quality of life of the average person. Urbanists do not hate anyone's way of life or want to force them to live differently.

[-] Moneo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

90% of north Americans live in towns or cities. And no you don't need a large population to support public transportation, here are hundreds of examples in Europe.

[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Except it's too late for that. The cities are already built. Fixing it would require tearing down entire cities and building new ones. Sure, you could do it one chunk of the city at a time, but doing just one city would take decades and exorbitant amounts of money.

[-] Moneo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The Netherlands did it in the 70s and plenty of cities are progressively doing it. All you're saying is, "we fucked our cities up, guess the only way forward is to double down."

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

A small town is 10,000-50,000 people. Average home price is $300k. There are around 2,000 towns of 10,000-50,000. That's $18,000,000,000,000 to build some of the small towns in the US to be public transportation friendly. Who gets dragged out of their homes to make room for rebuilding?

And you'll still have to problem that many people don't want to live in crowded towns. Most people that like crowded cities are already living there.

[-] Moneo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Plenty of towns that size are served well by public transportation in Europe.

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