destructdisc@lemmy.world to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-24 days agoI've honestly never quite realized up until now how utterly ridiculous it is that people (especially in the US) regularly demand that their food be chauffeured to them.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square368fedilinkarrow-up11.22Karrow-down157file-text
arrow-up11.17Karrow-down1imageI've honestly never quite realized up until now how utterly ridiculous it is that people (especially in the US) regularly demand that their food be chauffeured to them.lemmy.worlddestructdisc@lemmy.world to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-24 days agomessage-square368fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareremon@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·3 days agoHow does that fix food delivery? Are you only supposed to order from the restaurant around the corner?
minus-squarenoli@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·3 days agoProbably my personal bias, I have 5 different places I could get food from within 15 minutes walking. Closer to 20 when taking a bike. When I visited the US I was gobsmacked by literally everything being a 30min walk at least, even in more densely populated areas
minus-squareremon@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·edit-23 days ago I have 5 different places I could get food from within 15 minutes walking. Right, not exactly a lot of variation. It only really becomes viable once you add the bike back in. So while a walk-able city is a great idea in general, it does nothing for this particular issue.
minus-squarenoli@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days ago5 places is plenty variation if you cook at home most days. And if you’re eating out you can easily walk a lot more as you don’t need to worry about food getting cold
minus-squareremon@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·3 days agoRight. That’s a no on both ifs though.
minus-squareSkunkWorkz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·3 days agoIt’s quite telling that they didn’t think of walking or cycling
Walkable cities
How does that fix food delivery? Are you only supposed to order from the restaurant around the corner?
Probably my personal bias, I have 5 different places I could get food from within 15 minutes walking. Closer to 20 when taking a bike.
When I visited the US I was gobsmacked by literally everything being a 30min walk at least, even in more densely populated areas
Right, not exactly a lot of variation. It only really becomes viable once you add the bike back in.
So while a walk-able city is a great idea in general, it does nothing for this particular issue.
5 places is plenty variation if you cook at home most days. And if you’re eating out you can easily walk a lot more as you don’t need to worry about food getting cold
Right. That’s a no on both ifs though.
It’s quite telling that they didn’t think of walking or cycling