This is apparently in Columbus, Ohio – a pretty major city by any stretch of the imagination.

And yet there are people who rail (geddit?) against 15-minute cities and efficient public transit that ensures no one ever gets stuck like this.

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    54 days ago

    I think it is underappreciated how large the North American continent is with highly concentrated big cities, with vast portions of the land outside of larger cities without public transportation. This includes CA/US/MX as a general comment and not specifically this screenshot in question.

    One may have “good” transit in Calgary, Edmonton and Red Deer but what about all those large spaces in between? It’s 1.5hrs driving from Calgary To Red Deer with many 10k person cities in the middle, etc. These villages do not have transit systems - cars are how North Americans travel when outside of larger cities. It’s why EV (lack of) range is a huge (non)selling point for some people depending where they live.

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      54 days ago

      with vast portions of the land outside of larger cities without public transportation

      I mean, yeah? That’s the OP’s point? That too much for North America consists of poorly-designed car-centric urban planning.

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        14 days ago

        I mean, yeah? That’s the OP’s point? That too much for North America consists of poorly-designed car-centric urban planning.

        Talk to me about the public transit options - besides the one bus that runs from Kalgoorlie to Esperance - in Norseman, WA.

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          34 days ago

          I’m not sure what you mean. I didn’t hold out Australia as some bastion of urbanism. I simply reinforced OP’s point that North America is bad.

          Australia is also terrible at this. It just wasn’t relevant to mention.

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      34 days ago

      No, it isn’t underappreciated. It is severely overappreciated – i.e., it’s a bullshit excuse that’s been debunked over and over again.

      FYI, misinformation and bad-faith rhetoric, including whataboutism, is uncivil and violates rule 1 of this community.