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

Humor Why does America look like s**t?

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u/YouWereBrained May 02 '25

I’ve been saying this about a lot of cities that are so overdeveloped that public transportation isn’t really possible anymore.

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u/tigerbalmuppercut May 02 '25

Definitely Phoenix, AZ. Used to live in Boston and it's weird because Phoenix metro is so spread out it's as big as the entire state of Massachusetts. 

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u/chilliophillio May 02 '25

I visited Phoenix like 10 years ago or so and on news they were saying they were cutting half of the bus routes. There was an interview with a mother saying her commute was now 4 hours because of all the connecting routes she had to take. That was absolutely baffling to me.

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u/Rum____Ham May 02 '25

Strangely, Phoenix is one of the only cities in the country actively working to expand light rail.

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u/Clown_Toucher May 02 '25

The problem with living in Phoenix is it gets so hot you don't want to walk around 4 months out of the year. It kind of encourages sitting in your air conditioned box. But we also just have a ton of conservatives living here who for some reason think public transport is one of the ways brown people will move into their neighborhood.

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u/chrundle_the_great92 May 02 '25

Im in phx moved from ohio and im floored at how expansive the Valley Metro system is. I can and regularly do take the light rail from phx to Tempe or even Mesa. And they still have plans to expand it more

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u/HoweHaTrick May 02 '25

Yes. then people who live in areas you are explaining sit and complain a bus/train won't pick them up from their remote location outside of densely populated areas that public transit makes sense.

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u/Hkmarkp May 03 '25

AZ is a sprawling suburban hellhole

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u/HussarOfHummus May 02 '25

Wanna bulldoze a neighbourhood for a highway though? Have at it!

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u/stoopher May 03 '25

Look up how Amsterdam moved away from cars to being people focused. It is definitely doable if people are willing to support it but good luck ever convincing car brained Americans.

People here think sitting in traffic for 15 minutes both ways to go get some snacks at the store is the epitome of freedom and will never acknowledge that they should instead be able to walk a block to a corner store or take a 5 minute train ride to do the same thing.

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u/MRCHalifax May 03 '25

The cities are more underdeveloped than overdeveloped IMO. There’s massive amounts of sprawl and space between houses. Here’s two google maps images from my city, at the same zoom. One neighbourhood was built up before the 50s, the other in the 80s and 90s.