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by xracy 1172 days ago
I don't know if you've ever been to a walkable city, but they pay for themselves. Because people don't spend all of their time driving to and from the place they want to be, they get to spend extra time shopping and growing local businesses that pay taxes for infrastructure to stick around.

Car lanes are paying money for people to skip those places and only go to one place at a time without drawing them to other places in the same area. If I'm driving to the store, I'm driving... To the store. I'm not going to walk around outside of the store after I'm done. This has no benefits for adjacent businesses.
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cscurmudgeon 1172 days ago
Source? I can easily make the other argument.

Car lanes bring more customers from far away locations etc. etc.

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xracy 1172 days ago
I believe this is the video I was going off of to extract the info from.

You can make the other argument... but can you bring the other data for it?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI&ab_channel=NotJu...

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cscurmudgeon 1172 days ago
Can you? You just linked a StrongTowns video.

(I was 100% expecting that lol).

Let me spell it out. I was looking for peer-reviewed publications. I am not going through an ad-infested StrongTowns video to hunt for references.

He has links to his Patreon, paid-subs on Nebula, and donations but zero links to any peer-reviewed articles. That says a lot.

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xracy 1172 days ago
Oh, cool, still more evidence than you've provided. And honestly, you can Google for peer-reviewed publications just as well as I can if you're just going to complain about my sources.

Where are your "peer-reviewed publications" that prove I'm wrong. How about let's see that first, since you've provided nothing (not even an argument) for why I'm wrong. You just stated you could make the argument, and you yada yada yada'd your way through the rest of the point:

> Car lanes bring more customers from far away locations etc. etc.

How about you fill out the etc's with some peer-reviewed publications?

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midoridensha 1171 days ago
>I am not going through an ad-infested StrongTowns video to hunt for references.

You don't know how to install an ad-blocker?

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