Ask HN: If you could 'reinvent' anything what would it be?

Re:Ask HN: If you could 'reinvent' anything what would it be? by jrockway on Monday July 27, 2009 @02:56AM (#725508)

Want to go to the grocery store? Walk there in 5 minutes.

It's called a bicycle.

(It also makes it significantly easier to bring 50 pounds of groceries home; saving you from having walk there before every meal.)

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Re:Ask HN: If you could 'reinvent' anything what would it be? by david927 on Monday July 27, 2009 @03:28AM (#725543)

It's called a bicycle

No, it's called elimination of zoning laws.

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Re:Ask HN: If you could 'reinvent' anything what would it be? by jrockway on Monday July 27, 2009 @03:36AM (#725553)

This seems to be a problem with the suburbs. If you want to live within walking distance to the grocery store, move to somewhere within walking distance of the grocery store. I can walk to three (different chains), and take the L to one more. (I still take my bike, though, much easier!)

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Re:Ask HN: If you could 'reinvent' anything what would it be? by david927 on Monday July 27, 2009 @06:06AM (#725641)

I agree. If you get a chance, James Howard Kunstler's "The Geography of Nowhere" is an interesting read about this and other travesties of modern architecture and infrastructure.

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