Anonymous #2 2w

If you want to walk somewhere that you could've drove and do so, thats just called being inefficient

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Anonymous #3 2w

Not true I'm lazy and drive everywhere and eat ultra processed foods, and I still look European (as if I just came out of one of the Nazi's/Commie's camps)

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Anonymous #3 2w

Yup. And I support europeans criticism/ridiculing this country.

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Anonymous #4 2w

University is like the only Semi Walkable place Americans will experience in their entire life

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Not true. Cities have been designed to be unwalkable since at least the 1960s. Walkable historic neighborhoods demolished for highways… it doesn’t have to be this way. Disgusting people have enabled this.

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Ever heard of the term sprawl? It’s a disgusting and highly prevalent concept.

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Anonymous #4 2w

If they made a walkable city in the US I would petition for them to put a road through it so I can drive there and see all the people walking

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No, it isn’t. That’s a very poor excuse. Maybe expand your education adequately on the subject. If you really want to know the answer or start getting on the right path, here are some key words: segregation, suburbanization, disgusting racism.

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Now show a graph of population density at a city level since most people dont live in buttfuck nowhere Wyoming Ex : Austin desperately needs new rail, it’s overpriced and underdelivered but it’s quite dense in the urban core where there’s only 1 rail . They’ve been doing a

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Anonymous #4 2w

I’d add to this greed and a few other terms

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Anonymous #3 2w

How would I drive through there if I am forced to take a train?

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Anonymous #2 2w

Follow up question, how many palantir cameras are they going to put on the train?

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I mean they do, they voted on it. Project connect is underway. They are building it now. Slowly. A lot of of it is because they are dependent on federal funding, like with the i35 expansion.

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Anonymous #3 2w

Federal funding.... I thought you blue states didn't want to be a drain like us red states.... fund it yourselves

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Anonymous #2 2w

Austin is in Texas which is a Red state dumbass It has 1 line already, which is kinda packed every single time I’ve been on it. It is convenient as a park and ride to go down to UT or Downtown from the suburbs. UNLESS you have to do multiple things because you’re kind of screwed unless your stock is along the line or the BRT

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Anonymous #3 2w

Ok? Pay for it yourselves, Texas is purple now too especially when talking about areas like Austin

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Anonymous #3 2w

Plus you have a ridiculous amount of state level income

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Anonymous #2 2w

Trump withdrew Federal funding from the Dallas-Houston HSR and it’s kinda at a standstill now unfortunately it’s an eh idea because you need a car in both cities. But hopefully that could spur some more transit within the cities.

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Environmental study: train > car 👍 Money study: stop stealing it 👍

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Anonymous #3 2w

Money study: the least truly efficient option possible to fatten the pockets of a few or remain complacent 👎

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Anonymous #7 2w

their main thing is making fun of plus size americans and they correlate that to being lazy and not walking

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Anonymous OP 2w

I mean yes Americans are lazy (stereotype and partially true) but it’s most Americans are plus size due to the food they eat, though the way the countries infrastructure is designed does not help

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im not 100% against walkable cities and public transit but if it’s going to be done with the purpose of forcing the population to lose weight i don’t want it. plus size women should not be forced to change their existence at the hands of the government. it could also promote EDs like anorexia, bulimia, orthorexia, and body dysphoria. so many europeans have EDs but have been made to believe it’s normal. we don’t need to normalize that.

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Anonymous OP 2w

Bruh. Healthy weight and living does not equal eating disorder. The government should do more than forcing us to live sedentary lifestyles.

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Anonymous OP 2w

I’ll take being forced to be healthy than the opposite!

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Anonymous #4 2w

Walking everywhere isn't healthy, high amounts of cardio leads to testosterone deficiency in men

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Anonymous #2 2w

Lower testosterone leads to lower appetite, and when you take the amount of calories in/calories out that you would get from a day of walking, that can very easily lead to an eating disorder

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Anonymous #2 2w

i think it’s dumb to force ppl to walk everywhere but no one cares about men. i don’t even advocate for fat men bc they are just as rude and nasty to plus size women. if ur going to shift this focus to men pls see yourself out.

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Anonymous OP 2w

It also leads to estrogen dominance in women, but that causes higher appetite so instead of causing eating disorders, it offsets the amount of calories in/calories out.

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Anonymous #2 2w

Offsets in the opposite direction I should say

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No they're right, I was specifically referring to men with the testosterone deficiency but thats because the example suited men better, not because I'm trying to focus away from women.

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Anonymous #2 2w

oh okay i see 🫶🏻 thank u for clarifying

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Anonymous #2 2w

If yiu had adequate access to public transit or things were close enough together, you wouldn’t have to walk everywhere/it wouldn’t be a significant amount of walking.

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Anonymous #4 2w

I already do and it is a significant amount. Everything I need is less than a 15 minute walk from me right now but that's still around 10 miles a day if I actually walk everywhere.

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Anonymous #2 2w

If everything is within 15 minutes, how does it become 10 miles?? I’m also somewhere where you could get to places with a 15-20 minute walk. I usually walk no more than 4k steps.

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Anonymous #4 2w

Now if I had the time to make enough food to sustain walking 10 miles every day, that wouldn't be so bad, but I don't, and my car can fill up on enough gas to do it 30 times over in about 2 minutes.

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Anonymous #4 2w

To be fair, 15 minute walk can be annoying but that is a less than 5 minute bike (usually depending on how many traffic lights) which is very manageable

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Anonymous #4 2w

I go more places than just work, school and a store throughout an average day.

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Anonymous #2 2w

Most of what I need is on the further end of 15 minute walkability (all roughly 1 mile distance), and I would have to walk the same route back, so even work, school, and a store alone would be about 6 miles.

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Anonymous #2 2w

Sounds like a perfect use case for a city bike. Assuming of course it’s not too dangerous.

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