Why do Americans hate walkable cities so much?
Anonymous
9/3/2025, 6:43:53 PM
No.214483241
>>214483215 (OP)
Black-and-white thinking. Dey took ‘er cars o algo.
Anonymous
9/3/2025, 6:47:23 PM
No.214483356
>>214483215 (OP)
The car industry was one of our largest for many years.
Anonymous
9/3/2025, 6:47:24 PM
No.214483357
Walkable cities don't make sense in America, what they need is rollable cities
Anonymous
9/3/2025, 6:47:53 PM
No.214483377
Stockholm syndrome
America used to be a country of metropolis and small towns, but then the suburbia boom of the post war period isolated everyone, built soulless endless single family homes with zero utilities or community third places around, spurring on the need for cars.
Most americans before the 1950s lived in sprawling cities with tons of transport options like SF, NYC, or Boston, or they lived in small communities where everyobe lived more or less walking distance from the town center. But now that’s changed, and they’re car dependent
So they take it as a badge of honor, it’s their ”culture” to love cars, and defend cars, and advocate for cars, because they’re kept hostage by the car centric infrastructure that feeds itself
Anonymous
9/3/2025, 6:48:31 PM
No.214483392
>>214483215 (OP)
lol there's no way this is real
Anonymous
9/3/2025, 6:49:43 PM
No.214483437
>>214483215 (OP)
I think it's because car ownership is so deeply tied to the idea of the American dream and so anything that goes against it is seen as anti American
Anonymous
9/3/2025, 6:54:16 PM
No.214483620
>>214483806
>>214483215 (OP)
1) requires you to occasionally make eye contact on the street, one of the most terrifying experiences in the American psyche.
2) requires walking, ask an American to go for a walk with you and watch the book of excuses pile up.
3) they can't buy $650 worth of groceries in one trip and then lock themselves up in their house for a month, they would have to participate in their local community on a nearly daily basis, and make eye contact at least TWICE a day.
Anonymous
9/3/2025, 6:55:54 PM
No.214483672
But what about walkable clitties though
Anonymous
9/3/2025, 6:57:16 PM
No.214483714
>>214483215 (OP)
We don't, walkable areas have higher property values.
We just don't like public transit very much. I'm hoping Waymo ends parking lots than everything can be made much more walkable.
Anonymous
9/3/2025, 6:58:46 PM
No.214483773
>>214483215 (OP)
KeK
1950s-tier corporate propaganda
Love it
Anonymous
9/3/2025, 6:59:43 PM
No.214483806
>>214483620
Pretty much yeah. Even when there's events in town people refuse to park at the bus terminal/metro station because the idea of paying out the ass for a car and then 3.25$ for a ticket mindbreaks them. 20$h parking lots in peak traffic is preferable somehow
Anonymous
9/3/2025, 7:08:26 PM
No.214484094
>>214484200
>>214483215 (OP)
zazed, children should be taught from young age to kill the c*clist
Anonymous
9/3/2025, 7:13:27 PM
No.214484268
>>214483215 (OP)
Cyclists are the biggest douchebags on roads though
Anonymous
9/3/2025, 7:13:52 PM
No.214484278
Had never heard of the concept before I came here a year ago.
Anonymous
9/3/2025, 7:19:12 PM
No.214484451
>>214483215 (OP)
Because making the streets walkable is the 1st step towards locking everyone up in 15 minute concentration camps and that's communism or however the suburb commutes
Anonymous
9/3/2025, 7:21:17 PM
No.214484520
Europoors are really seething about this one lmao
9/3/2025, 6:43:01 PM
No.214483215
>>214483241
>>214483356
>>214483392
>>214483433
>>214483437
>>214483620
>>214483641
>>214483714
>>214483773
>>214484094
>>214484268
>>214484451
