• robocall@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I love living in a car free city. I can’t believe America doesn’t build more cities like mine.

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          8 months ago

          SF and Oakland aren’t car-free, they are car outsourced. You don’t drive, you have someone drive you. Other then a very narrow stretch of Down Town SF to Oakland, most of that metro area isn’t served by public transit. Unlike say NYC where most of the metro area IS served by public transit. (It’s still not car free though.)

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          8 months ago

          Huh, weird that when I was there, there were literally thousands of cars. Probably just hallucinated it

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              8 months ago

              For years I’ve somehow missed this. Cars driving on nearly every street and somehow that “car-free”, yeah makes perfect sense.

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                8 months ago

                I think it’s because the bar is so low, just the ability to choose to walk for everyday commuting, errands, and leisure qualifies as car free. Ie, you can choose to be car free if you want.

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                  Oh. So you mean the places where you have to be rich to live at a nice place, while everyone else has to live in a tiny apartment in a huge building that’s been borderline uninhabitable since the 1970’s?