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Genre: People & Blogs
Date of upload: Mar 3, 2023 ^^
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First they made it so I could get vegetables in a walkable distance
... and I said nothing
Then they located a dentist and doctors surgery close to my house
... and I said nothing
Then they added some leasure facilities quite close
... and I said nothing
Then they ensured there was an open green space I could use
... but who was left to speak for me?
Quite a few neighbours actually, who I've met recently.
Nice people on the whole.
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My mother is an opponent of these measures, last week she complained for days about the new parking system in London, the LEZ, the increase in congestion charge, all some socialist scheme to stop her freedom. She was forced to take crossrail into the city centre and then a tube up to where she needed to be. She took the train from her doorstep to her destination and back. Turns out it was easier and cheaper than taking her car would have been before 2020. We need better public transport and more pedestrianisation, let's gooooo.
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24:48 in practice 15 minutes cities actually means improving your local amenities, improving your local High Street, improving public transport, improving air quality by reducing car dependency. It does not require cameras at all.
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The other issue for the USA, besides the lobbying from big oil and the automotive industry, is that our cities are super expensive to live in, but theyre where all the work is. I can’t afford to like even 30 minutes from where I work because the area is so gentrified. And since rich people can stop bus stops from being placed in their neighborhoods, it creates unserviced areas for public transport.
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I literaly grew up in a "commie block" and it was an insane amount of freedom for a child. I could go to the kindergarden and primary school without my parents bringing me, would have been embarassing, and in high school I did not need my parents to taxi me back from the city, unlike my buddies from the sorounding villages.
Even better, the girlfriend of my brother had an apartment in a commie block in the middle of Berlin, and within a radius of 300 meters there was a Kindergarden, a primary school and a highschool. I would have killed for the opportunity to grow up in a place like that, probably keeping my friends along the way and having a high degree of independence from my parents.
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@Saibellus
1 year ago
normal people: "wouldnt it be nice if everything you needed was within 15 minutes of your house so you didnt have to waste hours of your life driving to and from work or the grocery?" conservatives: "the communists want to hermetically seal us in miniature domes to prevent us from driving to the good chick-fil-a the next town over"
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