Looking at Maps, it’s a 7 hour walk to my office. Or, two hour bike ride. Or, take 3 busses and a ride share in 2 hours. Or, a 30 minute drive in a car.
In the past we used to design our cities to be walkable because there was mo other sensible way. Now we build for cars and everything at the human level ends up far away separated by endless parking lots.
Wasn’t SimCity the game series that basically cheated and massively scaled down streets and parking spots because they realize exactly no one would like this even remotely realistic?
Personally, I even think it’s kinda stupid for Skylines to force me to build along a road. I grew up with SimCity; roads helped, but were not actually required because it did actually simulate people walking to a degree.
I legit get the willies whenever I'm in a suburban environment where there are no pedestrians. Cannot deal. I live near downtown Portland now, and I see people on the sidewalks all the time…walking, riding bikes, scooters, other quirky micromobiles It's fantastic.
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