Idk how people call tokyo anti car or whatever theres like an entire expressway system laid out above a lot of roads especially out in the burbs
Agree, there's a shitton of sports cars and motorcycles that just love to rev their engines at random times
The fuck car idiots have never been to Tokyo. They have literally roads on top of roads in the city center like the pictures above.
As someone who is very familiar with LA and the metro that zone that is listed as the "ok zone" is probably the biggest no go zone there is. Not just metro but in general.
Granted, their are more homeless in those areas but their are also more police and metro "Ambassadors". While the ambassadors don't do much it, they can still help to notify nearby cops of crazy people.
I've found there isn't anything of value and no reason to go east of the 405 or south of Santa Monica Blvd.
I sometimes had court cases in DTLA. Other times was a LA Opera or at Walt Disney Concert Hall. This holiday season, I took my theatre niece to Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church for a performance of Hadel's Messiah (something she wanted to see).
they're benefactors to an idealised and non-existent version of the working class, the socioeconomic equivalent of the 'noble savage'
I don’t know how it is in Germany, but when I lived in a dense city, the only local businesses were restaurants, bars, and the odd small grocery/convenience store. Everything else either had to be bought online or from a store in the suburbs and obviously all of the car-free residents only had one option.
Afaik this happens moreso due to the cost of land in dense central areas than civilians not being able to access it, it's why there isn't a single big box walmart in san francisco proper for example but you'll find smaller national chains like safeway scattered in the suburbs.
I think the cost of the land is tied to accessibility because it limits parking and store space. I wouldn't be doing huge ass shopping once a week or so if I didn't have access to a huge store with a big variety of things and an even bigger parking.
I never bothered to look it up until now, but there’s a ton of street parking in some of the densest parts of Tokyo:
On a tangent, but I feel like the Green energy movement shills/community almost wants its own thread, considering how much of a keystone it is in the current globohomo order while being scammy and carbon-intensive in reality.
