unashamedly-enthusiastic:

i-remember-manual-typewriters:

unashamedly-enthusiastic:

charlesoberonn:

bonediggercharleston:

charlesoberonn:

charlesoberonn:

toawk:

charlesoberonn:

charlesoberonn:

charlesoberonn:

We need more scary infinite variants of manmade environments like the Infinite IKEA or the Backrooms.

May I suggest, The Lot:

I’m sorry to disappoint you but this is a real parking lot. I didn’t edit it.

Check out the lot-to-building ratio in any large American sports stadium

Some lots are so big they have bus services specifially inside it. The lots are broken into sections and buses go around to their sections at a set amount of times before the start of something and drive people to the main building.

The societies of lost people inside The Lot would probably operate something like that to locate and pick up new arrivals and bring them over to one of the major settlements.

In the Infinite Ikea or Backrooms you can convince yourself there’s gonna be a door round the next corner or behind that wall.

But despite it being completely open, there is no hope of escape from The Lot. Whereever you look it’s just more cars from horizon to horizon.

Sheesh, man, that’s

a lot

My local 67,000 capacity stadium for context

That’s 11,000 more seats than Dodgers Stadium above

Note the tram stop

I wonder if it’s a societal thing of people not minding taking public transport then walking to the stadium because they’ll drink lots of beer during and after the game and never think of driving home?

I mean I do drive to the city, bit I go to a park n ride less than 10% the size of The Lot and get the tram to the city centre stadium

diskopartizanim:

marxoids:

I know hostile architecture is a specific thing, but I can’t help but feel that literally almost all cities are pretty innately hostile to humans living there. We already live in the world of Cars basically.

car centric infrastructure is like, inherently tied into environmental racism and segregation and trying to push the lower/working class out of existence entirely. no or little public transit pushes poor people off to the margins in car centric areas because they can’t afford it while at the same time cutting off their access to jobs because they can’t commute, and ofc theres the history of paving freeways right through working class and especially black/brown neighborhoods instead of investing in infrastructure that grants people equitable access to and ability to commute within high density areas where they would have heightened access to various types of public spaces (libraries, parks, ANY public service) and jobs

and even in places where public transit exists it can still be weaponized against the poor - last year the mayor of chicago literally was able to flip switches and cut off access to the city by putting up every bridge and shutting down every train between the merchandise/shopping district / rich people’s high rises and the working class who live in surrounding neighborhoods as a punishment for protesting (these bridges and trains being shut down also meant no one downtown that doesnt live there actually had the ability to adhere to the city wide curfew put into effect because they couldn’t get home, making mass arrests easy for the police)

bowling-with-skulls:

disbandandisperse:

disbandandisperse:

We Should All Be More Afraid of Driving

Two terrifying car accidents taught me that, despite what we like to believe, we can’t control what happens on the road.

The Atlantic

I really don’t think we pay enough general attention to how wrong and unjust it is that we’ve set up most of this country so that if you don’t own a car, your life will be extremely inconvenient- it will take you twice or three times as long to get places if there is a route at all.

And if you DO own a car, you have to shoulder the very heavy and very expensive burdens of car maintenance, repair, car payments, and car insurance. You shouldn’t need to have to do all that, we need to make it much easier to live here and not own your own vehicle.

normalize not driving…. my adhd autism wombo combo (meaning shit spatial reasoning, zoning out, background fuzz and poor visual processing, sensory overload, and difficulty with snap decisions) simply means that i should not be piloting a 2,000-pound bomb at 60 miles an hour through a crowd of other people doing the same thing and no amount of study will change that. i should not be ashamed of this, nor should i feel socially or financially pressured to do something that puts me and others in danger when i have other viable, environmentally friendly options. but noooooo, public transport infrastructure and biking are for commies.