SUV, Truck, SUV, SUV, SUV, SUV, sedan, SUV, SUV, SUV, SUV.
The culture problem around big vehicles we've created with bad regulation and aggressive marketing is depressing.
That's not the tragedy of the commons, and that's not why everyone drives turboencabulators.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
It is, I shit you not, a cold war tariff on fucking chickens. There's some other shit that's glommed on over the centuries, but the mad-science breeding program to create a pickup truck big enough to swallow the sun started with a stupid trade dispute over chickens between the krauts, the frogs, and the yanks.
OVER FUCKING CHICKENS!
I HATE IT HERE!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
So glad they put that thick protective white line there so I know I won’t be hit 🥰
The presence of the paint makes this nightmare area more walkable than plenty of places in the Failed States of America. I once had the misfortune of living in a place where the presence (or much more often, absence) of sidewalk was completely up to the owner of the property the stretch of road in question abutted. The rare property owner who chose to add sidewalk created a completely useless, disconnected decoration.
Lots of cities mandate new construction has to build sidewalks in zones without any. I think the idea is that eventually, as long as the sidewalk is up to code, new buildings will handle adding sidewalk instead of the city.
It's a very long term plan that makes these long term idiotic stretches, but it's not the worst way to do something that would otherwise not happen.
Is that a pedestrian symbol or the chalk outline of a pedestrian who got hit?
Next they'll eliminate the stripe and put up share-the-road signs with the stick figure
And the carbrains get mad about it because they don't want to share the road because that's communism
Can you believe it that some see walkable neighbourhoods as a conspiracy? I just can’t wrap my head around why…
Which is funny because anti-communism and anti-unionism were factors in the design layout of the American suburb...
https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/workplace/430312/shelter-against-communism/
Y'all can't hear it because I built a deep subterranean insulated bunker to protect the local ecosystem from the noice, but I am screaming "I HATE LIVING IN THIS FUCKING NIGHTMARE SOCIETY" over and over and over again, as I am want to do.
Weirdly enough it is a walkable neighborhood legit this is the entire street in the picture, for some reason they decided to paint these people lanes instead of just leaving it.
Wow, I sure am glad that the kerb is there to protect those blades of grass!
Where I live people will park their
tankstrucks in the driveway and block the sidewalk. At least they won't be able to do that here, but I wouldn't be surprised if people just start parallel parking on the people gutterWho the hell designed this? I want to see the person who made this burn in hell
Who would use this? Wouldn't you either walk on the grass or clearly in the middle of the street?
This is an American suburban. The petite burgerosie living in those houses would shoot your or call the cops to shoot you for walking on their lawns, or run you over with a Ford F 69,000 turbo jumbulator hepta-cab ultra-pickup if you walked in the street.
(this might not be an American suburb. It's hard to tell. All suburbs exist in a discrete liminal hell dimension)
Imagine seeing this when house hunting and still buying the house. You'd have to have worms in your brain to want one of these ugly McMansions with no sidewalk
Oh these ain’t McMansions, they’re the “missing middle” it’s basically row houses but with car centric infrastructure
That doesn't look like middle-density housing, it's just slightly more dense low-density housing
And of course every car there is a suburban assault vehicle too.
