• Goodtoknow
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    1 year ago

    Infrastructure and non transit orieted developmental problem. the place you live was likely built with only the car in mind.

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      The area I live in actually used to have its own bus station within walking distance from my place. Until 2009 when they totally shut it down, for basically no good reason.

      They nickname our town Ghost Town ever since then. We’re even a bicycle friendly community, but not a single bicycle shop in town anymore either. Ever since 2011 we bicyclists gotta travel at least 8 miles to get tires and tubes.

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      1 year ago

      Please make sure to read my other comment, our town was once developed with mass transit in mind. We even have our own railroad tracks, also within walking distance.

      But God forbid the citizens get to use such things, too much industrial transportation on the tracks.

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        1 year ago

        Sounds a lot like my town. This place used to have a train station and regular trains to major cities, and now it’s used only for freight and they turned the old station into a railway museum. It’s absurd.

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          Dang, you folks have a railway museum?

          Closest we got is to ask the nearest homeless dude where the parked antique trains are… ☹️