public transportation
just a rant tbh. i just got home from a new york trip, and it made me realize how much i genuinely yearn for public transportation, or just walkable streets in general. (obviously we could never be like new york, there’s literally only 3 gas stations in all of manhattan) BUT i wanted to live in midtown so bad JUST because it’s walkable for the most part. you can’t tell me something is walkable if i have to walk down a street with a speed limit of 55 and 4 lanes and all that’s separating me from death is a curb. sure, i could ride a bike, but there’s 0 protection in 99% of places and it’s not safe at all most the time. a 6 min drive and a 45 min walk to the grocery store due to the lack of sidewalks is criminal. it doesn’t help that i commute to folsom so i’m literally in the worst traffic humanely possible every day and have fallen victim to the hell that is highway 50. I JUST WANT TO WALK TO THE GROCERY STORE WHEN I NEED PARSLEY AND NOT HAVE TO GET IN MY CAR AND DEAL 7,986 PEOPLE AND 38 TRAFFIC LIGHTS THAT TAKE 400 YEARS TO CHANGE AND THEN TRY TO FIND A PARKING SPOT ON TOP OF IT.