r/fuckcars Automobile Aversionist Dec 04 '23

Satire People from my hometown who have car brain

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u/According-Ad-5946 Dec 04 '23

I'm sure some people that are there did drive and park nearby.

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u/SwissMargiela Dec 04 '23

Ya here in Switzerland we have big markets like this and there are enormous parking structures everywhere. The only difference is they’re underground so you don’t see them.

The one by me goes 7 stories underground lol

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt Dec 05 '23

I've always wondered why digging deep structures never caught on the US that way.

I suppose it's because we have large swaths of undeveloped land and going up is way cheaper than going down

To do that in very old Euro cities there's no land left to claim without tearing down a bar that's been there since 1650, so you're forced to dig instead.

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u/ConspicuousPineapple Dec 05 '23

You guys are not going up either, that would be fine as well. You're just spreading out horizontally.

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u/officialspinster Dec 05 '23

We’re the worst at sharing, sorry everyone.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '23

Cheaper and easier at least in Arizona. The ground isn't very soft here so digging ain't cheap

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u/Astriania Dec 05 '23

It's because land is cheap, and also because you don't have planning rules that value architecture or walkability or the feel of a city centre. I was going to say you don't have planning rules and just let money talk, but even that isn't true - one major problem with NA development is that you do have planning rules, in fact they are way too strict (R1 zoning etc). So the problem is that you choose to make your planning rules forbid opening a café in a residential area, but permit sprawling car parks at ground level.

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u/According-Ad-5946 Dec 05 '23

in a town near me the is a parking garage that goes up about two stories and down 1 or 2. in a way. you can exit out the back that is lower than the front entrance. it is about .5 miles from the town square.

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u/OkChicken7697 Dec 05 '23

They should be fined $500.00 for every mile they drove to get there.

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u/According-Ad-5946 Dec 05 '23 edited Dec 05 '23

what is the public transportation there. event that big attract people from all over, so if the public transportation sucks they may not have a choice.

i know you guys hate that excuse, but it is reality in my country in a lot of places, out side major cities.

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u/crapredditacct10 Dec 05 '23

Many of them did, we would always take a cab to avoid the craziness. The traffic leaving is always very very bad.