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Thank the gods we live in such a car-saturated nation, how horrible it would be if this space was used to house people
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this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2024
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Do you think the people here care about sound arguments? Nobody except for a select few hyper-fit nutjobs are ever going to walk even so much as an 1/8th of that images span for anything. The area is far too large to want to walk, so we use it for transit instead. Forget that it transports millions of people, products, goods, etc. They want it to house hundreds of people instead.
People who will then not be able to get those products and goods, because...they fuckin' ripped the road out!
Is it just me, or are the Lemmy fuck cars communities a lot more infested with trolls like this guy☝️ than the one on Reddit was?
@grue @thantik Federated service instances need active and aggresive moderation to keep trolls under control.
Monolithic services spend a lot of time and money on doing that.
Apart from the time when they don't.
People That Disagree with you != Troll.
People that use arguments easily debunked by a 5 year-old or repeat garbage == trolls
Sound arguements are fine, but the interchange is literally in the middle of the 4th(?) largest city in the US, not the middle of nowhere. Houston is also known for a huge amount of sprawl which is literally caused by the amount of space the 10+ lane roads take up.
Is America running out of space or something? Yeah it’s a concern when there is limited space, but America is mainly “empty” the sprawl doesn’t affect them.
"Hm yes if we inefficiently use all this space then we can destroy all this perfectly good agricultural land and make space for more cars!"
What’s inefficient about vertical farming? There’s plenty of green area even in the Picture that’s posted, could easily put a bike and pedestrian network through there. If it was needed.
There’s always solutions, but it’s also just easier to bitch and moan instead.
Cost. It's a lot more expensive to build vertical. Additionally you need lighting that would wouldn't need otherwise.
The capacity more than makes up for it. You could also grow in cold climates where you can’t normally as well.
The benefits are there.
No, it's just like solar. You need existing infrastructure to make it worthwhile, e.g. the top, sides, or inside of an apartment building . Otherwise there would be vertical farms everywhere. America is entrepreneur/Venture capital heavy. If it penciled out properly, people would be doing it.
The images span is about a mile... I know American fitness standards are low but I think most can walk an eighth of a mile.
Also it's not housing hundreds of people, as shown in the meme it could house 10s of thousands of it's not huge lot single family housing, but that's only if you care about "sound arguments"
To be honest it’s kind of weird here in North America. People frequently act like a 15 minute walk is crazy, and a 30 minute walk is impossible. These people could walk that far, it’s not a fitness issue, just people pretty much always just default to driving everywhere in certain places.
@Chobbes @Not_mikey Walking 600m (as the crow flies) from my hotel in Sugarland Houston to the shopping district near it was sketchy as. Y'all are crazy hostile to people choosing to walk anywhere.
Ooooh yeah, big time! I just want to live somewhere that at least acknowledges how fucked up the car situation is 😭
Probably part of the problem is where they make you walk, or that nobody actually plans for safe nor comfortable walking anywhere.
This is an issue sometimes. It's not great when suddenly there's no sidewalk and you're walking alongside a busy road. That said, I don't think this is the main contributor. I think people are just in the habit of driving everywhere to the point where they won't walk 15 minutes from their house to a convenience store and will opt to drive instead, and this is in neighbourhoods with good sidewalks and no particularly busy roads. People just don't think about walking as a means to get anywhere and they'll frequently drive just a couple of blocks if they're going to visit somebody nearby too, in my experience anyway.
You know what can transport millions of people? Trains. Oh and bikes and buses exist. Cars are not the only form of transport, or the best.
@eya @thantik I’m waiting on that transnational conveyor belt.
Yep, actually in a city setting there are scenarios where walking has got better throughput rates than car traffic...
Possibly. This isn't reddit... yet..
Let me take this apart: "Nobody except for a select few hyper-fit nutjobs are ever going to walk even so much as an 1/8th of that images span for anything." What's the span in the image? Maybe a mile? Two? Come on! IF the surroundings aren't noisy and are pleasant a normal average human of the planet earth is capable and willing to walk about 2-5 miles a day. In civilized countries you also have multiple options, it's not just "suffer and walk" or "sit in a car and bang your head on the steering wheel". Just the option to walk to most places where you need to go actually gets rid of some of the traffic that causes congestion. And the highway intersection hellscape depicted only serves the people who have no other option than to drive everywhere. It's a prison. "The area is far too large to want to walk, so we use it for transit instead." No, it's not.
"Forget that it transports millions of people, products, goods, etc." You know there are better ways to do this than building an eversprawling city with highways cutting right through it. Highways are among some of the most inefficient ways of transporting goods and people. They cause noise and pollution. Everyone wants to live as far away from one as is convenient. Not that these human errors aren't to be found everywhere in the world, it's just that it's only in the North America where this is more prominent than elsewhere. "They want it to house hundreds of people instead." You just looked at a picture where you have an area in Italy, similar in size to a highway knot in Texas that houses 30k people and you fail to understand what you just saw. 🤦♂️ "People who will then not be able to get those products and goods, because…they fuckin’ ripped the road out!" I can't even... 🤦♂️
Yet again, another 'murican that can't fathom how people use their legs.