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This is a lovely gesture, but also it's pretty sad (and very North American?) that if your car dies at the store you can't get home without relying on the tenuous kindness of strangers (pbs.twimg.com)
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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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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

Similar in Turku, Finland.

And I live on the very edges of the city. 500m to a store and pharmacy, supermarket a bit further. But there's buses that go like every 7 min during the day.

Now they're also opening more cross city lines, so that'll make it so that I have a bus stop outside my building that will take me to one of the largest malls in Finland in a few minutes. And the other connection takes me to the centre of the city which has a mall even larger by sales.

I've not owned a car for years, and even when I buy lots of groceries, the bus connections are so good that I've not needed a car. I'm a single guy though, but sometimes I'll have like 25kg of groceries on me when I weigh myself for the luls. A backpack and bags in both hands.

If I need something bigger that requires a car, I can use a taxi or loan a car from a friend.