Mentions (15)
"You gotta be fucking kidding me. 'Oh no I can't openly support an objectively good thing because then I'd be agreeing with embarrassing people and that will ruin my reputation!' Grow a backbone - stop acquiescing to the most retarded ass conservative grifters our there."
"All people want to talk about is CO2 emissions, bus systems, high speed rail. That's cool and all but how about allowing me ride the train to work without smelling HOMELESS STENCH?"
"My 'anti-car', 'urbanist' brother starts talking about how much he hates cars and that they're cages and that American culture is totally fucked because of car dependency."
"How can a city be walkable when homeless tents are blocking the street and are making it impossible for people with disabilities to traverse"
"The number of people who have smugly told me that they're "obsessed with urban planning" and passionate about walkable cities in the past 5ish years is insane."
"be me, young adult going abroad to study. holy shit prague is walkable. the term *walkable city* is understood for the first time in my life."
"since moving to a walkable city again, my walks have gotten longer and more frequent throughout the day. i've been feeling clearheaded, relaxed, and skinny."
"How come it's bad for your suburb to be two hours walk from the nearest shop? That's four hours of walking, which is very healthy"
"he told a reporter he wants to create 'walkable luxury.' i haven't stopped thinking about that phrase. walkable luxury. as if the only thing keeping us from salvation is a wine bar next to a rock climbing gym."
"You talk about housing reform, walkable cities, but the real walkable city is your infinitely accessible midtown 1 bedroom"
"Like many of the people here, I very much like walkable cities with some amount of culture going on. HATE owning a car."
"I'm taking a pay cut to leave my WFH job for an in-person-only one in walking distance"
"But like what the fuck do people do if you cant just walk to a coffee shop or a library."
"Yes, the urban walkability guys are more common on reddit than anywhere else but there's still like 5 of them compared to the legions of fatsos posting about how certain interstates have good fast food and bad drivers."
"Anytime something moderately progressive is brought up he'll jokingly say something like 'hmm walkable cities? I don't know man, sounds like communism' (to make fun of conservatives)."