Post #1310167
2026-04-11 11:20 UTC
@ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu @arianvp@functional.cafe I'm going to go out on a limb, and please don't confuse this as me defending this bullshit choice of theirs, but it might have something to do with how often walking that far can be impossible in the US. Not because of people's limitations, but because the public infrastructure to do so safely doesn't exist.
Obviously they should have people who know the area audit the routes their system is offering and adjust the defaults to reflect the local infrastructure. And please yell at them so they can fix it for your area. I'm just saying, this is very likely a systemic issue because of how car brained the people who build our infrastructure are, and how unsafe it is to walk in many parts of the US. And I say this as someone who was forced to use the broken infrastructure here for many years when I didn't have a car, where I was often walking along roads without sidewalks because there was no other route available to me or the next bus was an hour away, where my only other alternative was to pay for a fucking Lyft or Uber.
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@ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu 2026-04-11 11:36
@deathkitten @arianvp All understandable reasons if I lived in the states... US developers thinking that nobody speaks a second language, walks, or lives in any way differently than they do in their silicon valley prison is quite annoying.
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@penpencilbrush@mstdn.social 2026-04-11 12:10
@deathkitten @ainmosni @arianvp Why do you need a sidewalk? Sincere question. That's the beauty of walking. A sidewalk is not necessary. (Other than highways, better to avoid highways.) Walking is the freedom to go where you want to go without needing 'infrastructure'. #Walking
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@resuna@ohai.social 2026-04-11 12:51
@deathkitten @ainmosni @arianvp STROADS