• Nagarjuna [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    The one that gets me is Juneau. Like, it’s totally cut off from the land and has a river running down the valley. You could have done some Venice shit or some Amsterdam stuff but instead they built a highway and shipped cars in.

    Tbc, you cannot drive out of Juneau. Your car just hangs out there.

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      1 year ago

      TBF there are car ferries to Skagway and Washington

      But yeah would’ve been cooler if they didn’t

      • Nagarjuna [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, but in equivalent places in other parts of the world you’d park in Skagway or Washington and take the ferry into Juneau

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    1 year ago

    I remember reading that the Sim City developers wanted to make the game as realistic as they could, but parking lots took up so much space that it would basically ruin the game if they included them. They ended up adding a few parking areas here and there for aesthetics but otherwise just assumed that cars parked underground.

      • alycat [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        Thank you for that. I’m just realising how “tame” my area is with parking in comparison to places in the US. There are new ones being built though, so it’s actively getting as bad as it is there

        This was the query I ran if anyone wants to reuse it

        query spoiler
        /*
        This has been generated by the overpass-turbo wizard.
        The original search was:
        “"parking lot"”
        */
        [out:json][timeout:55];
        // gather results
        (
          // query part for: “"parking lot"”
          node["amenity"="parking"]({{bbox}});
          way["amenity"="parking"]({{bbox}});
          relation["amenity"="parking"]({{bbox}});
        );
        // print results
        out body;
        >;
        out skel qt;
        

        It did pick up some street parking, but only the ones that had it in the middle not the sides (like the ones where there’s a bus lane on the left)