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Re:Deterioration of Local Community a Major Driver of Loss o... by bcrosby95 on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @10:02AM (#40646290)
This is a common thought on this but I grew up and have lived in mostly California suburbs and it's pretty easy to be within biking distance to things (1-2 miles).

People talk about the dangerous cars but they were there 40 years ago and my friends and I would bike to school, the mall, or into the hills surrounding us.

My 9 year old's friend lives just two blocks from us and her parents don't let her walk here alone. When I was that age we were riding our bikes for miles in car infested San Jose.

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Re:Deterioration of Local Community a Major Driver of Loss o... by dangus on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @10:14AM (#40646398)
I don't know if you realize how much the built enviornment has been changed in 40 years.

Some of those roads you biked on have probably been widened. Cars have gotten faster, larger, and heavier. Speed limits have increased.

I'm not saying it's guaranteed to be dramatically different but I think there probably is some kind of difference.

Just look at the pedestrian deaths chart for the past 5-10 years or so.

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Re:Deterioration of Local Community a Major Driver of Loss o... by uoaei on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @10:03AM (#40646301)
This experience is so far from being accessible to a typical resident of the US, what exactly are your motivations for framing it as "shrug there's no issue with urban planning"?
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Re:Deterioration of Local Community a Major Driver of Loss o... by bcrosby95 on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @02:51PM (#40649995)
My experience is consistent with what I've seen in two major US metros: LA and the SF bay area. I never called them great urban planning but hyperbole does nothing to convince people something needs to be done - it just makes you out as someone to ignore because there's already more legitimate arguments vying for our attention than we could address in a lifetime.
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