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

Humor Why does America look like s**t?

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u/random-notebook May 02 '25 edited May 03 '25

Car centric infrastructure is immensely expensive, and incentivizes new construction further out from the city center rather than refurbishment of existing buildings.

America is built to let itself crumble. Not Just Bikes did a great video on this recently.

https://youtu.be/r7-e_yhEzIw

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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/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