This is apparently in Columbus, Ohio – a pretty major city by any stretch of the imagination.

And yet there are people who rail (geddit?) against 15-minute cities and efficient public transit that ensures no one ever gets stuck like this.

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    4 days ago

    I hate the impacts of cars too, and desperately want better transit options.

    But we should maybe put up a sign for stories out of North America:

    “North America is really really big. It sucks that it doesn’t have better mass transit coverage, but that’s still a genuinely hard problem to solve in rural North America.”

    Most folks in rural North America have stories both of being the rescued and being the rescuer when cars have broken down.

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      4 days ago

      Columbus, OH. 900k pop. 2.23m metro. Doesn’t have a functional transit system.

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        Yes. It is bullshit that a city that size lacks functional transit.

        But it is in the middle of nowhere, compared to much of the world, so each person has a compelling reason to own a car, if only to occasionally escape from Columbus, OH.

        It can become better, but the challenges are real.