How has your experience been so far?

For the same amount of people, you wouldn’t need to.

They supplement and decentralise food production, building resiliency into our systems.

Someone who hates or distrusts humankind certainly isn’t a positive trait.

IMO this is a universal problem. I’ve had neighbours in a single family house that choose to mow their lawn at 7am on a Saturday and have a very loud pickup truck that I can hear start up any time they drive it.

so much hate.

I know you’re not serious but this is a really sad and hateful worldview.

Those are great too :) with some small grocery stores at corners occasionally.

It’s possible to own a condo apartment, or if the building is structured as a co-op, then rent is permanently affordable and you have a stake in how the building is run.

More here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKudSeqHSJk&t=0

Gentle density is awesome too! Rowhouses, duplexes, low-rises: all great options for cities that are zoned to only allow single family housing.

Consider that if you have one bad neighbour in an apartment, then everyone on your floor will also be talking to them and helping to regulate their disruptive behaviour.

Apartments usually have concrete walls so you can’t hear your neighbours. Unfortunately, there are some new builds made by developers trying to maximise profit at the expense of the residents who don’t do this.

Perhaps in some parts of suburban north america. However, well-designed walkable, bikeable cities with proper transit don’t require mega big box stores all in one zoned area that you drive to from a sprawling suburb.

Co-operative run housing largely eliminates those problems.

Zoning is a very important topic, but if someone doesn’t have any passion for it, then it’s better for them to focus on vehicle design than nothing.

Try not to control how other people help - you may have more success posting and commenting about zoning issues and actions in your community to bring awareness and dialogue than discouraging others from focusing on truck-specific issues. 🙂

It’s important for people to tackle the issues from many angles, including both zoning and dangerous vehicle design. I’d argue the real waste of our grass-roots energy is going after each other.

This is a great way to do it too! Many streets even have a 40km/h speed limit but are built wide enough to accommodate 80km/h, so drivers often speed and increase fatalities.

There are some politicians that will listen, so consider joining a bicycle advocacy group if your town has one. Failing that, guerilla urbanism is an option.

Some cities are car-centric because we designed and subsidised infrastructure to make it so. We induced a demand for cars by spending billions on building, expanding, and maintaining highways to the point that people hop in their car for a 2km trip. People now have no choice of transport other than a car, and that’s a problem. It’s literally killing us and our children whowith road violence, lung cancer from emissions, and via our climate.

Your steakhouse metaphor is akin to the entire city consisting almost exclusively of steakhouses. But why bother changing it, all cities are designed only for steakhouses. You don’t get a choice to eat other cuisines because it’s so inconvenient to go across town to the one Greek restaurant.

You’re right - I’ll stop feeding them.

Bike lanes are proven to increase revenue for businesses in their vicinity. Car parking takes up valuable space in a city which could be used more productively.