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An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that’s the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.

  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    6 months ago

    Suburbs are intentionally designed to not be walkable.

    To get to the neighbor behind my house, without cutting anybody’s yard, I have to walk about a mile. We aren’t far. His daughters play with my sons through our shared fence.

    And that’s a modest example. Plenty of cul de sacs that are “close” to the main street, as a crow flies but a lot further if you’re an East Asian Chinchilla Monkey running as fast as you can.

    • person420@lemmynsfw.com
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      6 months ago

      Love it or hate it, they aren’t intentionally designed not to be walkable, they’re intentionally designed to discourage traffic from driving through them.

      The reason communities like yours and the one behind your house aren’t connected is to reduce the amount of cars driving down your block. To make it safer for your kids to play outside.

      • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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        6 months ago

        The reason communities like yours and the one behind your house aren’t connected is to reduce the amount of cars driving down your block.

        Which is ironic because it has the opposite effect by forcing every resident to get around via car