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If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need To Prioritize Dignity (www.strongtowns.org)

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Have you ever had a friend return from a vacation and gush about how great it was to walk in the place they’d visited? “You can walk everywhere! To a café, to the store. It was amazing!” Immediately after saying that, your friend hops in their car and drives across the parking lot to the Starbucks to which they could easily have walked.

Why does walking feel so intuitive when we’re in a city built before cars, yet as soon as we return home, walking feels like an unpleasant chore that immediately drives us into a car?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'll grant you skateboarding & BMX on a technicality, despite those things both definitely not involving walking. Also... do people really enjoy getting drunk or high in parking lots? I'd just assume anyone doing that was homeless or truant.