The world is changing and so can yours. Ten years ago I tourists were always shooting videos of people biking to work. Today it’s (somewhat) normal to them. Look at Paris.
Comment on Me when I zoom past traffic on my e-scooter
Turret3857@infosec.pub 11 months ago
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ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Just have to be European. Live on the south coast in the UK and life is so easy here.
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Check out Strong Towns. They’re a policy advocacy group that’s focused on helping people influence policy at the local level to make their towns livable again. I’m a part of my local strong towns group, and they’re absolutely great. We’re getting the ball rolling, organizing with other local activist groups, meeting with local politicians to understand our local challenges better, and all while receiving a lot of support from the mother ship organization. Meanwhile, our town isn’t some metropolis, it’s only 90,000 people.
If that isn’t your thing, just start going to city council or county board of supervisor meetings and start making public comments there. It’s a good way to meet with other policy advocates in your community and start networking with them.
Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Walking.
Turret3857@infosec.pub 11 months ago
[deleted]Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I was going to type out a reply, but conditional_soup already said everything worth saying.
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Ah. Well, the problem is that we’ve made building new housing units nearly impossible through decades of unforced errors at the local level in nearly all of our cities, as well as bullshit ass zoning. It’s not even remotely impossible to undo, but a lot of people don’t recognize it as the root of the problem. Again, check out Strong Towns, we’re working to walk these errors back and make our cities places that are built for people again.
- With regards to zoning, nobody in their right mind is asking to let DuPont put a rocket fuel factory next to an elementary school. Many zoning codes have really terrible and not evidence based practices codified, such as enforcing single family housing sprawl, ensuring that you MUST drive to go buy a loaf of bread, and requiring outrageous parking requirements often 2-3x over what’s needed in practice.
ameancow@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Stop making it a life-goal to go 1.5 million dollars in debt to own a stucco home in a vast ocean of identical stucco homes and maybe buy some property by a small town and sacrifice the luxury of convenience and being able to get doordash whenever you want and instead have a little garden or something.
If the market decided that living in suburban hell wasn’t profitable anymore, they would stop paving over vast tracts of land to unroll a sea of terracotta roofs as far as you can see like a rolling ocean of debt.
TauZero@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Not necessary. I live in Manhattan and the street canyons are full of doordasher ebikes, and grocery store isles are jammed with instacarter trailer carts which they then hitch up to more ebikes.