Me when I zoom past traffic on my e-scooter

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> mfw I live in Walkable city > want to walk around in it > walkway is a fucking tiny narrow corridor of concrete > be forced to walk between congested car traffic and escooters, with no pedestrian crossings anywhere > get run over by some clueless skateboarder
- My city is super walkable with great walking and biking infrastructure. Still get run over by some fuck on a bicycle or escooter on the sidewalk or zebra crossing.
  
  I got hit by a car recently crossing a street. I'd rather get hit by an escooter.

just one more lane bro. I promise bro just one more lane and it'll fix everything bro. bro, just one more lane. please just one more, one more lane and we can fix this whole problem bro, bro cmon just give me one more lane i promise bro, bro bro please ! just need one more lane
- What about adding a lane?
  We've already added a lane.
  Yes, but what about a second lane?
  I don't think he's ever tried adding a second lane, Pippin.
- You know what would actually fix traffic? TRAINS
  
  Upvoted for Alan Fischer reference in the wild. His bits go so much harder than pretty much anyone else in urbanist youtube
  
  Compromise: Steam trains.

This is probably one of the top ten most incredibly based pictures ever. I love it. Thank you for brightening my day, OP
- I'm going to bike to a restaurant in 15 minutes after work today, maps says it takes cars 30 :)
  
  don't forget the 15 minutes looking for a parking spot and 10 minutes walking from the parking spot to the restaurant
  
  My favourite thing to do is 'race' the person who offers me a ride home all the time. Like, I appreciate the offer but trust me, I will be home before you could get me there AND I'll get to enjoy the sunshine.
  
  Met my coworkers after work yesterday. 21 minute bike or car ride by the GPS. By the time they parked downtown it was 35 mins, meanwhile I shaved a minute off the GPS :) feels goooood
  
  Shortcuts too narrow for SUVs? :)
- Needs trees.
  
  While, yes, it does, urban and suburban sprawl is far, far worse for trees. Go to your local Wal Mart super center and, not counting the garden center, tell me how many trees there are per acre in the parking lot. Now multiply that by every big box store and mile of stroad and highway.

Tokyo

I just need to carry my hang glider and sailboat :(

Bought an eBike last weekend because I'd rather be soaked by rain than sitting in traffic to/from work. It feels damn good to finally be the person in an otherwise empty bike lane, passing countless cars that are going nowhere.
- otherwise empty bike lane
  Over here in New York, everyone got an e-bike and now we get bike jams in the bike lane during commute hour. Dunno how I should feel about it. Aladeen? :(: Still faster than a car for sure.
- I love my ebike.
  I've been big into bikes forever, but the ebike just makes it super convenient to bike to work.
- Party on, party on!

All those escooters getting in the way of my walking.
Hey! I'm walking here.
- All those walkers getting in the way of my escootering.
  Hey! I'm escootering here.

Motorists hate this one simple trick

!fuckcars@lemmy.world
- Nah, cars certainly have their place, just a bike or scooter is way better downtown :)
  
  That's supposed to be the consensus of the "fuck cars" movement, but the name certainly gives the impression of being completely against cars. When your eyes are opened to how car-centric infrastructure has taken over our societies it's hard not to be a bit reactive.
- Nah cars are fucking awesome it's just that they've taken over.
  
  it’s just that they’ve taken over
  Like a lot of movements, fuck cars is named partly to grab attention. If you take the name literally, you get a misleading impression. A more accurate name would be "fuck car culture" or "fuck car-centric design" or "fuck motornormativity". But those aren't nearly as catchy.

hwo do I get to walkable city and live there
- Walking.
  
  that solves the first part if I walk for like 4 days, but how do I live there short of being homeless?
- Check out Strong Towns. They're a policy advocacy group that's focused on helping people influence policy at the local level to make their towns livable again. I'm a part of my local strong towns group, and they're absolutely great. We're getting the ball rolling, organizing with other local activist groups, meeting with local politicians to understand our local challenges better, and all while receiving a lot of support from the mother ship organization. Meanwhile, our town isn't some metropolis, it's only 90,000 people.
  If that isn't your thing, just start going to city council or county board of supervisor meetings and start making public comments there. It's a good way to meet with other policy advocates in your community and start networking with them.
- Just have to be European. Live on the south coast in the UK and life is so easy here.
- The world is changing and so can yours. Ten years ago tourists were always shooting videos of people biking to work. Today it's (somewhat) normal to them. Look at Paris.
- Stop making it a life-goal to go 1.5 million dollars in debt to own a stucco home in a vast ocean of identical stucco homes and maybe buy some property by a small town and sacrifice the luxury of convenience and being able to get doordash whenever you want and instead have a little garden or something.
  If the market decided that living in suburban hell wasn't profitable anymore, they would stop paving over vast tracts of land to unroll a sea of terracotta roofs as far as you can see like a rolling ocean of crippling debt and HOA fines.
  
  Buying a property outside a small town defeats the purpose of being in a walkable city, no?
  Why are you assuming I want to live in a "stucco house", or a single family home, at all?
  Why are you assuming I order doorfash, and dont have a garden (I do have a garden, and I have never ordered from doorfash.)
  you dont have to assume the worst all the time fella. this is lemmy, not twitter.
  
  sacrifice the luxury of convenience and being able to get doordash whenever you want
  Not necessary. I live in Manhattan and the street canyons are full of doordasher ebikes, and grocery store isles are jammed with instacarter trailer carts which they then hitch up to more ebikes.

Nyen nyen

Thanks for sharing, made me grin not gonna lie

me when I cycle to school on rush hour instead of picking the car (I know I'll be stuck if I do)

Be happy that you can use an e-scooter or bike. Imagine being unable to use such a device, crappy public transport, and that in a city that cuts off cars...
- IIRC this often comes up and actually removing cars generally helps people with disabilities. Sure you may always have a few exceptions, but disabled parking can still exist while everyone that is able bodied can walk.
  
  The problem is that it does not remove cars in that city. People still need to get to work, and public transport is so bad, it is hardly an alternative.
  The mayoress simply f-cks up car traffic, only marginally improves bike traffic, and public transport (busses) have been victims of cutting into car traffic, too.
  Better make a big detour around that place.
- Simply have good public transport
  
  I would not mind. In the mean time, I skip that city and actually drive to the next city over and use their tram to get to the city center. Even though it is much farther, it is still quicker.

make the overhead train a 12 lane freeway and it's any random metrohell in texas. paths right next to frontage roads, a mile+ walk just to get from one side of the freeway to the other--safely.

Motorcycle passes them all
- Yeah a plated dirt bike rules (as long as your commute is less than ~20mi). Gets 75mpg, goes literally anywhere (even where it's not supposed to), and you look cool doing it.
- Beefs it and dies

complicated