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Re:To stop building heat islands, stop overbuilding parking ... by bcraven on Thursday January 13, 2022 @04:35AM (#29918702)
Bryson's America: Why would you walk?

>I'LL TELL you this, but you'll have to promise that it will go no further. Not long after we moved here we had the people next door round for dinner and - I swear this is true - they drove.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/bryson-s-am...

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Re:To stop building heat islands, stop overbuilding parking ... by jsight on Thursday January 13, 2022 @12:48PM (#29923967)
In my neighborhood, they'd take a golf cart.
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Re:To stop building heat islands, stop overbuilding parking ... by ezconnect on Thursday January 13, 2022 @05:03AM (#29918946)
Because suburban design in America is not designed for walking, their neighbor probably need to walk 2 to 3km to reach their next door neighbor.
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Re:To stop building heat islands, stop overbuilding parking ... by komadori on Thursday January 13, 2022 @05:22AM (#29919071)
To quote Bryson's article: "but I have since come to realise that there was nothing especially odd in their driving less than a couple of hundred feet to visit us. Nobody walks anywhere in America nowadays." (emphasis mine)
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Re:To stop building heat islands, stop overbuilding parking ... by jrimbault on Thursday January 13, 2022 @05:17AM (#29919039)
That's just a half an hour walk. It happens to also be about the distance between my apt and my parent's apt. It's a distance I walk very often.
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