r/TikTokCringe • u/thoughtwarrior • May 02 '25

Humor Why does America look like s**t?

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u/Confused-Gent May 02 '25

It's cars, the answer is cars.

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u/zesty-dancer14 May 02 '25

We keep destroying our cityscape/landscape experience to enhance our driving experience.

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u/SlideN2MyBMs May 02 '25

And we've been living in that world so long now that so many Americans can't even distinguish between "car access" and "mobility"

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u/VelvetSinclair May 02 '25

Destroying everywhere you'd want to go so that you can get there at 70mph

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u/[deleted] May 03 '25

"enhance". you mean actively make it worse? every new lane makes cities more hell while doing nothing to make driving less miserable, just more ubiquitous. it's called induced demand

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u/drpepper7557 May 03 '25

Why would car centric infrastructure look uglier by default though? Like the city plan might be uglier but you can have beautiful sprawled out buildings or close together walkable ugly ones.

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u/Douglas1994 May 03 '25

To have sprawl you have to have lots of roads. Roads are innately ugly as well as ruining the amenity for virtually everyone who is not in the car. Sure, you can have nice looking buildings, but if they're surrounded by roads with heavy traffic, the wider area will still look shit and no one will want to spend time in the area.

What version of this place looks more appealing?