[agogdog]

After living in various parts of Europe for a few years and coming back, the US way of doing it seems mind-boggingly wasteful. Huge swaths of our country are long roads that lead to massive parking lots.

And of course we're obese, many people couldn't walk to accomplish errands if they wanted to.

[cableshaft]

I've been watching some Virtual Japan videos on YouTube lately, and it was really interesting how so many major streets in Japan don't seem to even be built for cars, people just walk in the center of the street and from location to location no problem, there might be some motorbikes but that's about it.

I don't think I've ever been to a city where they decide they don't need cars on their major streets. All of our cities presuppose that enough people will need to drive through it, and everything is much more spaced out because of it.

I'm sure Europe is similar.

Like here's one of Harajuku: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VXKHlhJzd0