West Coast baby

  • Rinox@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    It doesn’t solve it, but I can see how it would help to solve it. If everyone lives in super low density suburban neighborhoods, public transportation doesn’t make any sense. You can’t build a train station that would realistically serve a dozen people tops.

    Higher density makes public transportation a viable option, which in turn reduces traffic and pollution.

    Also high density mixed used means you don’t need the car every time you need to go grocery shopping, or to a bar or even to a park. You can go by foot

    • Kiosade@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      How do you get all your groceries on foot? Do people buy personal handcarts or something? I live in a 1 BR apartment and I just would not have space for something like that.

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        1 year ago

        Well, it depends. Where I live I have a grocery store like 100m from home, and I go by foot there. One or two bags (the reusable kind that don’t melt away) and you just go, get what you need, go back home. Nothing special. I’ve also seen older people use like a mini trolley thingy with a bag attached in order to bring home the groceries. When you get home it folds and you can just put it behind a door or something.

        In Holland I’ve heard they also really like cargo bikes, but where I live there’s not enough bike infrastructure for that. I don’t live in a big city center like Paris or Milan btw, but in a medium density city on the outskirts, so I can also use a car and often do, especially if I need to buy lots of stuff. But if I just need a couple things, going by foot is way easier and faster.

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        1 year ago

        Simple, you don’t buy a carts worth of groceries at a time. When you can walk to the grocery store in 5 mins it’s easy to go twice a week or more. Hell, I went to the grocery store 3 times in a half hour because I kept forgetting stuff for a recipe I was making.

        Also there are plenty of foldable carts that could fit under a bed or in a closet.