I'd love to see a video that takes this concept, but walks around with it. Literally
Start by getting out of a car on the side of the street or in a parking lot, and when the camera gets out of the car, all the "car areas" drop away, leaving only the paths you're "allowed" to take. Tiny sections right against the parking spaces, zebra crossings, sidewalks, all normal (or in this style).
Camera goes about a normal day, and as they're looking around, all the car designated areas are just voids.
Bonus points if areas you're technically not supposed to walk are boxed off in like a video game style DO NOT ENTER wall. For instance, there are sections of my city with NO sidewalks, up against private residences. So your options are walk over people's yards or in the street. In this scenario, it's a void against a wall. Good luck.
I'm just thinking about walking to get to downtown, and there's no way I could do it without being somewhere I'm "not allowed". And imagining the massive voids everywhere is a bit depressing. Not that roads and parking lot deserts are any less depressing... I need to go walk in the woods for a bit...
I'm just thinking about walking to get to downtown, and there's no way I could do it without being somewhere I'm "not allowed".
If I want to cross the 4-lane road just outside my apartment, there is simply no legal way to do it. There is an intersection but no crosswalks and no way to request to cross. I shouldn't have to have a vehicle just to get from one side of the road to the other.
And sudden cracks and voids appear, when cars park on sidewalks or a car crashes into pedestrian areas.
Sounds like something that Corridor Crew/Wren would make
Something like this? https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJKWuwan/
Not quite the way you describe it, but I you reminded me of this vid anyway
This has circled around the internet for years now. I remember the last time I saw it people were losing their minds over how “reductive” it was. Blew me away
Ugh I can imagine the re**it comments now
It's hardly any different here.
Whats Reductive
Ligma balls
Not much, how about you?
Does that mean I gain the flying ability when I jaywalk
Yes, try your ability over a cliff to ensure
You just have to believe
Not to mention the growing sinkholes everywhere.
Hey, I know that place. That's exactly what the old downtown area of my native city looked like while they were renovating all the streets (which took well over a year).
Also looks like Venice, just fill the hole with water.l and tourist will be pouring in.
Note: to be fair, after finishing the work in my city, those streets were all closed off to cars except for people who live there (not many) and deliveries for the local businesses.
The walkways are a fair bit wider in Venice.
Every time I see this photo it's more and more mangled
This is such a weird picture, because you can still walk out into the street when there's no vehicles around
I think it's funny because even if cars weren't invented then the images presented would still be the same. Cars followed the convention that was before them... horses, and horses with carts and cartridges.
Not really, cars are faster and more deadly. People had to be somewhat careful. The auto industry invented a slur (jaywalking) to convince people the street was no a place for people outside of a car. Look up old footage of cities, people are everywhere in the street.
Coincidentally it is the same space that is used by bikes. Or does the artist picture them as combat-biking on the pavement?
Bikes take much less space and they will go around people, it's not uncommon for roads to be shared for bikes and pedestrians at the same time. On the other hand you risk getting hit by a car if you walk into the streets, thus the metaphor of falling down a chasm.
Bikes take much less space and they will go around people,
Well, I seriously doubt that bikes generally go "around" people. For pedestrians in a pedestrian environment, a bike is about as dangerous as a car is for bikes on a road.
you risk getting hit by a car if you walk into the streets
Just like you risk getting run over by a combat-biker in the pavement, the pedestrian zone in the city, or a pedestrian crossing. And don't tell me those things dont happen - I see them every day.
Man this sub is weird. i would block it but im kinda curious to see if it devolves into some kind of weird flat yearthy / vegany hybrid sub. god speed to you all, cuz you dont have cars i guess.
Plenty of regulars of this sub do have cars and no issue with using them, but instead just want cities to favor other methods of transportation. This would be a good example. Not sure what relation do you think any of this has to flat earthers.
It's fine to be against cars and not use them. But then to be obsessed about it to the point you end up preaching it like hardcore vegans, it gets obnoxious and is counterproductive. The reason for the connection to flat earth is because there are plenty of valid conspiracy theories to be analysed (oil companies doing suspicious shit) and having seen multiple posts about how roads are not meant to exists indicates the early stages of a warped worldview. And i sont just mean "the current road structures are bad", but rather it being porttayed as unnatural and therefore bad. Combining these factors makes me think these anti car communities are headed in that direction. But idk enough about it to know if it will happen, its just based on loose snippets i've seen from these communities.
Also a depiction of how much of that space is actually paid for by car owners with registration fees. Someone has to pay the road fees to maintain all that walking space too.
Also to consider that the way the shops are build like that is because of cars not foot traffic. If it were a walking space that was explicitly built for walking and then was actually ‘surrendered’ to cars it would have been built quite differently to begin with. So it is far from accurate.
paid for by car owners.
Ah you sweet summer child. You still believe that cars actual finance the roads. Watch this video from 3:15 mark.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QPAil1xY42I&si=TF-H-0ugB33wAYT9
Now do the hazards of transit in which you accurately depict how monorails have the potential for incredibly tragic death for people falling out of it if it’s overcrowded because ‘EMISSIONS’ cuz while we can talk public transport we better talk about the severely lacking supportive infrastructure for everyone going back to work when they could be perfectly fine working at home but oh no someone claimed we create just as much emissions staying at home but that is clearly ignoring that transit also creates emissions.
Which cities are building transit that one can fall out of?
The closest I have seen is the incredibly crowded tube lines in London, where one may be pushed out on a platform other than which they want
If you ever see a sign that says ‘don’t lean on door’ it actually means “don’t let people crowd so hard against you that you fall out the door” is more accurate of the scenario that happens. There are no bouncers on transit that can stop too many people getting on a vessel. There is also no limit on population. There is also no law stating “not everyone should show up at work at 9am exactly”
Lololol you can cross the street outside of crosswalks.
You can use a rusted nail as a toothpick, but I wouldn't recommend doing so.
Good Lord you people live very frightened lives.
In many places it's illegal and where it's legal it's often dangerous
I recall reading a study about stray dogs in urban environments. I don't remember much from it, but I diatinctly remember the authors discovered that urban dogs tended to avoid intersections. They would walk down the block a significant distance before attempting to cross a street.
Intersections are complicated. Traffic can be coming from any direction, turning toward or away from your path. Halfway down the block, though, traffic is only approaching from two directions. Much less going on, and much safer for the animal.
in many places the law says that you must cross at a crosswalk
Cars also have people in them, which images like this conveniently forget.
🚘🧠 spotted
People also have cars in them, which comments like this conveniently forget.
Okay, so if there are no more cars and only public transports, people can walk all over the road without worry? Where do you think buses drive?
It's a fucking metaphor. JFC...
Most transit advocates prefer trams/streetcars over buses. They’re safer and can coexist with people much better.
Not to mention the fact that rails can be placed underground
Public transport needs much less space than cars. Especially if you put all the parking lots into the equation. So much space in cities is wasted by cars that do not even move most of the day.
my dude you do realize that's exactly what people did in the past before cars existed, right? There's a video of olden gothenburg that shows kids running in front of the trams for fun!
And if you go there now you'll see people crossing precisely wherever the fuck they please, because it's just inherently way easier to deal with a couple public transport vehicles per minute than it is 50 cars.
The point is that the whole thing should be designed differently. We should focus these spaces around people rather than cars. There probably wouldn’t even be roads there at all. Streets would be fewer and with more space between them, and they would be designed to defer to pedestrian traffic more often, rather than the other way around. Bus stops would be on those streets, and pedestrians would walk a distance away to board them, while moving through safe, walking-focused sidewalks and avenues on the way.
It's almost like everyone would have more space if cars wouldn't eat up 50% of the available space, while public transport and bikes only get 4% and 2%... :O Ö O: .O.
And this is in an area of Berlin where only 13% of trips are taken by car while bikes and public transport account for 32% and 22%.
This surely translate to less traffic, better commute times, less noises, less pollution, safer streets and the list goes on.
Also delivery vehicles? The hipster organically grown vegetables in the local bodega at the foot of your apartment building in your walkable urban utopia don't arrive there by magic.
Pour one out for all the Dutch, who don’t know what vegetables are because they bike everywhere and have walkable cities.
One of your two braincells must've died.
