It's a gas station convenience store without the gas station.
So a corner shop then.
A corner shop is probably too nice a comparison, that implies a friendly cashier and no bulletproof glass.
Imagine doing your grocery shopping at a 711 but everything costs more than convenience store prices and hot food that couldn't pass a Wuhan health inspection.
My local corner shops are a lot nicer than the nearest petrol station. I guess it's like that grimy high priced petrol station vibe they're trying to say. Like a 3am visit to a shell where the best option is the cold cornish pasty.
We all know that nothing that cities do really "reduce car dependency", it just means stuff gets restriped to bike lanes and the rest goes to some slush fund somewhere.
When the term "historically disadvantaged community" it is just newspeak for "blacks/Mexicans live there" but neighborhoods deteriorate and gentrify so there's no real definition for it. If you forced out all the non-whites for some yuppie shithole, it still is technically "historically disadvantaged" while suburbs that have deteriorated since 1970 might not qualify to be "historically disadvantaged" but they would qualify. And of course, that's not even counting the idea that there are poor whites and wealthy non-whites. And if the area still has downtrodden non-whites then literally nothing changes.
So they basically depoliticized the planning and outcome requirements? No wonder it's a stake to the heart of low IQ urbanist retards, as no doubt being unable to foist their garbage on people is a hell of a blow to their egos xD
So they admit it, "urban living" is surrounding yourself with niggers and crack addicts who you can't criticize for fear of coming across as "lacking empathy". These faggots hate law abiding country bumpkins who happen to own F150's more than they hate the literal homeless niggers shitting up their neighborhoods, what a cucked mentality.
They assume if everyone is forced to be in the same Hell as they are eventually someone out there will have to do something. They cannot create nor invent they can only destroy. When it comes to the logistics of making anything actually happen, why can't someone else do it?
I recently saw the same thing in the Bluesky thread, they're fully leaning into the classic "everyone who makes fun of me and my dumbass hot takes is a (probably russian) bot/troll" cope. https://kiwifarms.st/threads/bluesky.204745/page-146#post-20404375
I might have mentioned before, but my city must have spent a fortune converting roads and pavements to add a bike lane no one uses, 30 feet from a major cycle rout no one uses. And of course, cyclists 99% of the time just ride in the road anyway.
I've given some thought into the car are expensive thing and realized, that imagine if you didn't have to cover costs that were external to the car's operation that don't involve keeping it mechanically running. I'm talking about various added things such as carbon/eco taxes, insurance etc. Imagine if you had to pay for registration and liability insurance on a bicycle.
When the bike/walking urbanism is limited to adding bike lanes and transit and other random shit that basically doesn’t affect anyone, nobody really cares. If they put a bike lane on some new bridge people shrug. If they take away a traffic lane for a bike lane some will get annoyed but most will shrug.
