build walkable communities
build walkable communities
Edit: of course this is satire. The power of the reading comprehension devil grows stronger every day 😢
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Not a strong example of walkable communities, it's quite pathetic in fact. Is this satire?
“Walkable” to a gas station is a strong indication of satire.
More walkable than some places. At least there is a side walk.
Sidewalks and 15-25mph speed limits go a long way. Would be nice if there was little community stores for staples embedded in the neighborhood, but that's a foreign concept in American suburbs
I was just talking about this with my wife yesterday. It would be so nice if there was a small market in our suburban neighborhood
It isn't there because of zoning practices separating living areas from businesses, which is often decided at the local level. Just gotta convince all your neighbors that they should be good with it too....
Be sure to add side walks with it. My childhood neighborhood now has a little strip mall with some snack shops. They are nice, but no safe way to walk to it. Short walk, but still.
You should engage locally to change your zoning laws to allow for that. Most places are only allowed to have single family homes and nothing else
Check out https://www.strongtowns.org/local if you want to get involved
I can't think of any reason someone would post this without a hint of irony, but nowadays it's impossible to tell for sure
The tiny dot and 3.7 miles distance is a blatantly obvious use of irony.
This is ... imo, not satire.
It is simply an example of the opposite of a walkable neighborhood/community, literally framed at such an angle as to capture the ludicrousness of it.
It is an illustration of the absurdity of car-brained NA city design.
But it isn't exaggerated.
These kinds of developments, neighborhoods, are absolutely everywhere in the US, they are very common.
Even the use of 'walkable' may noy be satire: If there are sidewalks the whole way, well that would actually be uncommon, and many US policy makers and local city urban planners would actually, seriously, class this as walkable.
I am guessing folks from more civilized parts of the world are reading this as satire, because this seems unfathomably, beyond belief stupid.
... Welcome to America, we hate it here.