“America IS walkable, you’re all just lazy” my childhood home was an hour from the nearest hospital (by car)
not all Americans are lazy suburbanites, some of us genuinely have to drive miles and miles and hours and hours to buy clothes, grocery shop, see doctors or do anything, really.
notice how in movies they show you New York and costal SoCal and not like, middle of nowhere North Dakota.
“take public transit” look at me, look me in the eye. do you think they have subways in towns with three digit populations? do you think they run busses out to the middle of nowhere?
Everything @elaynetrakand said here. Everything.
I live 1 hour south of my state capital, one of the biggest metro cities in the US, with one of the busiest airports.
We do not have public transportation available in my county. Or in the two counties next to us. Or 3 counties over. The metro-downtown area doesn't have consistent public transportation outside of certain areas.
We do not have consistent sidewalks outside of the subdivisions or the smalltown squares. We do not have bike lanes. The counties surrounding us do not have those things either. When I lived 20 minutes from the downtown, I did not have those things consistently either. Meaning you'd be walking and suddenly the sidewalk was gone and you were walking on a busy road. For 2 miles.
And yes, it is the working class that suffers when activists push punishing restrictions instead of actively lobbying for meaningful, sustainable, change that meets the needs of the people. Always.