traffic and car dependency here is an example from the subreddit suburban hell these two houses in florida share a backyard but it would take over two hours to walk between ridiculous the dutch take a very different holy heck you've got to be kidding me suburban hell went through a little phase where people were trying to find the worst examples of that and that was that was one of them but uh there's certainly others that's one of the things that really frustrates me about so many suburbs is that um i think actually the channel oh the urbanity made i think it was them they made a video about this that like everybody hates cars right even suburbanites don't like cars they want to drive they just don't want anyone else to drive so when they build those suburban neighborhoods with all the twisty streets and the cul-de-sacs the reason they do that is is to cut down through traffic like that's it they make it too complicated to figure out how to get to where you're going unless you live there that's that's the reason it's done that way and it's it's crazy because um there's so many instances though when you get to suburbia that like there'll be houses right up next to a commercial property of some kind like a grocery store or something or a strip mall and you can't walk to it because there'll be a fence in a ditch right and it's like that's the most frustrating thing ever because it's literally like i can see it it's right there i can see the building i want to go to but i can't get to it because they fenced it off right and it's that kind of thing that's just it frustrates me so much because you could actually cut down car traffic by just plowing a little path through there multi-use path let people walk or cycle between the neighborhood and the and the uh the shops and you know it's not going to solve the world's problems but there's going to be a non-zero number of people who will walk there to get the shopping instead of getting in their car and driving through the neighborhood and out onto the arterial road and everything else to get there which is just one more car clogging up everything and that's one of those things i talked about in my video about um why i love driving in the netherlands in in car dependent places you just you need to drive to everything even if something is like whatever NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN meters away you can't walk there you just can't walk there yeah and it's just so frustrating to me that you have to get in the car and drive and you know it may be NUMBER_TOKEN meters to walk but to drive is going to be two and a half kilometers or two kilometers or something like that because you have to go all around and twisting circles and everything yeah it's just so frustrating it's such an incredible missed opportunity i feel like every one of those cul-de-sacs should have a path at the end that just goes straight through to the cul-de-sac on the other side and if you did that everywhere that alone would let people just connect better right but um but yeah it's it's frustrating and so this video then kind of gives us it it continues on and gives us the kind of the alternative to that not all routes are accessible by cars
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