Everytime i see my hometown mentioned it’s never for anything good lol. Fuck you Spokane, glad I left ya.
Where city
Something something pave paradise something.
Roads should also be colored to dig it deeper
Just…
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It’s so depressing I can’t describe it in words
This looked so absurd that I had to look at the satellite view to believe it but it’s true. This planet has skin cancer and it’s us.
And most of the cars that use that parking are in use for maybe 2-3 hours per day. The rest of the time they’re just taking up space.
We really need to get people to abandon personal cars. Even if everyone switched to electric cars we’d still need all this parking space. We’d also still have all the microplastic pollution from their tires.
There’s a catch 22 though. A lot of people feel like they need their cars because there’s no alternative. Because of that, they oppose any law that could make cities less car-centric because it makes it harder for them. But, that just means they continue to need their cars. I don’t know how that can be fixed.
Where I live, most people have cars. But a) they’re cars, not trucks; b) parking is highly restricted, mostly to multi-story garages. Since parking takes up less space it means that walking distances get much smaller, which means you don’t need the car as much.
Laws helped cause the parking lot issues.
Would honestly love to live in a building or neighborhood that maintains a fleet of cars to share. I can’t afford to operate a truck/van as a daily driver (and I honestly hate driving them), but I often find myself wishing I had a large vehicle to move stuff around in.
If the parking lots were eliminated, buildings would be so close to each other that you could walk and you wouldn’t even need parking lots.
Lemme tell you a story.
A few years back I was on a trip to the US, I was visiting a small town, not much going on there but they had an airport.
When I checked out from the hotel the receptionist asked me if I wanted her to call me a cab, I said no because the airport was 1.5km away from the hotel and I’ll just walk there. Poor woman was looking at me as if I was stabbing a baby right in front of her, a look so bevildered and confused that I actually felt sorry for her.
Then the hotel driver appeared from the office and took me to the airport… Such a weird country
Anyway, moral of the story is, good luck convincing those people to walk.
In many parts, walking is suicide simply because there are no safe ways to cross many roads and in some places it is entirely impossible. But even where walking is possible people are not even considering it as an option. I had a similar experience in a mid sized town, where we walked maybe 30 min into the centre from an inner suburb. The walk was nice, except for a scary part where we had to cross a highway with its looped exit lanes. People at our destinations looked in the exact same way, as if we were pure lunatics. This whole thing could only be explained by us being Europeans and Europeans do this kind of crazy stuff.
Makes me think that we could probably, with all connected social ramifications, determine the development index of a society by the percentage of parking area.
edit: Or not, it’s maybe actually a dumb idea.
Yeah, try that with Tokio, Seoul or London…
Forget AI, the world has already been taken over by artificial life : cars !
…what? ALL OF THAT IS PARKING LOTS???
Build a wall, across the Atlantic. Protect Europe from the American menace. They would definitely turn the entirety of Europe into one big parking lot.
The Greek hanging gardens? Parking lot. Colosseum? Colossal parking lot. Venice? Underwater parking lot. The Netherlands? Parking lot with tulips.
And so on, and so forth. What else do you think Americans would turn into a parking lot of they every carpet bombed Europe?
I can see there’s a lot of potential for parking space development on that island in the middle there.
All suburbs in PNW are like this. “Asphalt ocean”
What this place needs is clearly more parking lots.
Bro fucking detroit looks better than this
