Public transportation. In Germany at least, many of the train stations are located underneath common points of interest, such as malls, airports, downtown, etc. As a result, they are nearly always flushed with people.
How will shifting away from cars result in more people going to the mall? How are you supposed to get there?
Laborer3652@reddthat.com 3 months ago
AA5B@lemmy.world 3 months ago
And yes, it can be done in the US as well, and not just in cities. I think our similar touchpoint in the US is “Main Street”. Guess what: they still exist in a few places.
Time to brag about my town. We have a town center with a Common, transit hub, library, post office, government buildings. Most importantly we have a nice walkable street with shops and restaurants. As was tradition, the lots are in back, but there are also higher density housing so many people are just there and all the buses, taxis, Ubers, scooters, and even canoe rentals center on that area so there’s transit.
During COViD when we couldn’t go to places with a lot of people, this became much bigger. My family wasn’t the only one that developed a new tradition of walking at the Common and along the street, eating outside, or grabbing takeout from one of the many Ethiopic restaurants, to eat at a bench on the Common
viking@infosec.pub 3 months ago
By subway. By bus. By bike. Walking. The world by and large doesn’t revolve around cars. How do you think Europeans get there?
SupraMario@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Public transport…and their countries are small as fuck. The amount of people who think the USA is the same size as European countries is hilarious. Most states are the size of a few eu countries.
viking@infosec.pub 3 months ago
Yeah, so? Are you going to a mall in the next state or what? Public transport connects suburbs and cities. You’re not supposed to take the subway from Chicago to your favorite mall in Seattle, just like no European takes bus from Amsterdam to go shopping in Brussels.
SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 3 months ago
Yes, that’s what Europeans don’t understand about America. When we go to, say, Wal Mart, there’s only one. We have to go to Bentonville, AR. Not so bad for us here in the Midwest, but the residents of Alaska have it particularly tough. And since you go to Wal Mart to pick up milk, we can’t go by public transport. It has to be by car, or better yet, drive the Canyonero. (No train schedule can predict when the milk runs out!)
The country is so big, and we have so much empty land, there’s just simply no room to build more stores near where people live. What kind of madness would that be?!
SupraMario@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Nope but the nearest mall to me is 2 hours drive. No one is building rails out into the smaller counties. The USA is massive. I’ve lived in Europe, its a lot smaller, and people still have cars. Not saying this couldn’t work for cities but people forget how spread out we are here in the usa.
awesome_lowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
The rest of the entire world is a teeny bit larger than the US, but they still manage to do public transport just fine, for the most part.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Besides Europe and Japan…no they really don’t.
uis@lemm.ee 3 months ago
The amount of people who think the USA is the same size as European countries is hilarious.
Well, Russia is a European country. Also Russia is largest country in the world.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Russia also has shit public transportation because of its size.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Well optimally you have 2 legs, you could use those, also public transport.
Video with more info youtu.be/586SO9-wWoA?si=SL-vnIV14DPwFH9I
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I’m not clicking that link, you left your SI in it. Google is gonna track me if I click on that.
justgohomealready@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
They track you in a million other ways, what do you care anyway.
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Well, that kind of tracking data can be used to influence elections and other such deeds, as Cambridge Analytica showed us. I don’t want megacorps to have that much power over people.
uis@lemm.ee 3 months ago
It’s called number eleven
card797@champserver.net 3 months ago
It will just be delivered.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Well ofc, Europe doesn’t have delivery invented yet, that’s the difference between the us and europe
card797@champserver.net 3 months ago
Some day.