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    7 hours ago

    it’s 1/2 a mile, but it could be 400 ft

    Cool numbers, bro

    I don’t know how much that is

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        4 hours ago

        That’s not too bad. Walking 800m to the supermarket is a piece of cake

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          Yeah, but here in the US they don’t take just one piece of cake, they take the whole damn thing. Also these land whales blobbing around won’t walk that far for anything. Not even more cake and ice cream.

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    8 hours ago

    Smaller two wheeled cars is the answer! Maybe the wheels are really thin and connected to the bearings via some kind of hub and cables?

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      Might want to try making sure you’ve got the latest app version if you haven’t already. Beyond that, might want to try posting in !loops@lemmy.world. Logging in works for me 🤷

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      It’s awful and geographically most urbanized areas in the US are built this way. Thank god for the small areas that were built before cars were invented. I live in one and while we still have huge negative impacts from car infrastructure at least walking and biking are viable alternatives here, even if the system doesn’t put them first.

      The US is truly a shithole country.

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        On the flip side, one of the UKs major transport problems is that we were the first to industrialise. So although we have rail networks all over the place, they worm through literally thousands and thousands of small bridges and tunnels designed in the Victorian era. So not only can the speed not increase (at least not without buying the surrounding land and straightening the track, crazy expensive) adding any physical dimension to the trains would basically mean re-digging tons of tunnels and lifting bridges, which would also make the cost crazy.

        Meanwhile Germany is zooming about in double decked trains like a boss…

        It’s actually possible to fly to Europe cheaper than some UK train tickets (due to demand)

        Meanwhile, cycling in London is actually getting pleasant in some parts. And it’s seriously satisfying to zip past cars congested for miles. The tube is 24hr as is a large part of the bus network.