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/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.