this post was submitted on 29 Dec 2025
58 points (93.9% liked)

Fuck Cars

14119 readers
296 users here now

A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let's explore the bad world of Cars!

Rules

1. Be CivilYou may not agree on ideas, but please do not be needlessly rude or insulting to other people in this community.

2. No hate speechDon't discriminate or disparage people on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexuality.

3. Don't harass peopleDon't follow people you disagree with into multiple threads or into PMs to insult, disparage, or otherwise attack them. And certainly don't doxx any non-public figures.

4. Stay on topicThis community is about cars, their externalities in society, car-dependency, and solutions to these.

5. No repostsDo not repost content that has already been posted in this community.

Moderator discretion will be used to judge reports with regard to the above rules.

Posting Guidelines

In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:

Recommended communities:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Vegas is in decline not because of lack of pedestrian capability, is just kind of pointless.

Gambling? Well you can gamble much closer to home.

Shows? It's kind of arbitrary that Vegas was the hotspot, but the residencies are pretty much the same ones they had twenty years ago, and everything else you can find essentially the same show on tour.

Accommodations once luxurious haven't really kept up, again mostly monuments for how they were two decades ago. Preserving some of the ambition of back then but tossing a lot of it toward the end of saving money, and not really investing in keeping things as nice as you'd expect.

So what you have is the hubris of "look how far we pushed a city on the middle of the desert".