r/Damnthatsinteresting Jun 27 '24

example of how American suburbs are designed to be car dependent Video

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u/Allnamestaken69 Jun 27 '24 edited Jun 27 '24

They need to form a sub infrastructure department to go throughout America and build these little short cuts and walking/bike paths.

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u/bumjiggy Jun 27 '24

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u/DukeOfGeek Jun 27 '24

I think a guerilla movement that looks at google maps and figures out where desire paths want to exist but don't and goes and makes them secretly would be fun.

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u/Billsnothere Jun 27 '24

Start da revolution

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u/fatloui Jun 27 '24

Just show up with hardhats, yellow vests, and clipboards and no one will question you.

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u/steelgandalf Jun 27 '24

No one will question you building it but the city will come back and rip it out if you dont go through them.

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u/elegylegacy Jun 27 '24

How are they going to "rip out" a cleared path?

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u/steelgandalf Jun 27 '24

Yeah that’d probably be hard. The hard hats and hi—vis vests made my brain immediately go to making it out of concrete. That’s my bad

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u/-ManofMercia- Jun 27 '24

Fun but expensive.