did not expect to be jump scared by my hometown lol

We could turn all that blue stuff on the map into more parking lots ya know

wow, there's so little city in this city.. where are the people supposed to be?

that's not even the scariest part. Everyone drives through downtown likes it's a highway. Not worth staying near the bars and food if you're three feet from being slammed by a lifted truck going 50

If the parking lots were eliminated, buildings would be so close to each other that you could walk and you wouldn't even need parking lots.

This looked so absurd that I had to look at the satellite view to believe it but it's true. This planet has skin cancer and it's us.

Bonus fun: Spokane's city govt named a parking garage a historic building worthy of subsidizing for preservation. It also won an award for 'excellence in use of concrete'. Spokane's just that awesome.

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/oct/20/getting-there-spokanes-parkade-becomes-one-of-few-/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkade_Plaza

Lmaooo I love this kind of thing. How utterly you have fucked our cities

I can see there's a lot of potential for parking space development on that island in the middle there.

And most of the cars that use that parking are in use for maybe 2-3 hours per day. The rest of the time they're just taking up space.

We really need to get people to abandon personal cars. Even if everyone switched to electric cars we'd still need all this parking space. We'd also still have all the microplastic pollution from their tires.

There's a catch 22 though. A lot of people feel like they need their cars because there's no alternative. Because of that, they oppose any law that could make cities less car-centric because it makes it harder for them. But, that just means they continue to need their cars. I don't know how that can be fixed.

Thought this was that stock market chart for a second

One with roads coloured too would probably also be informative. And I feel like this could be scripted with openstreetmaps to make them for different cities and compare them...

Where's the second comparison picture that shows what it would look like with more 3 or 4 story or underground parking.

Not enough parking destroy more buildings and the there is still too much nature remaining its useless for the car industry.

...what? ALL OF THAT IS PARKING LOTS?!!?

Build a wall, across the Atlantic. Protect Europe from the American menace. They would definitely turn the entirety of Europe into one big parking lot.

The Greek hanging gardens? Parking lot. Colosseum? Colossal parking lot. Venice? Underwater parking lot. The Netherlands? Parking lot with tulips.

And so on, and so forth. What else do you think Americans would turn into a parking lot of they every carpet bombed Europe?

That's a lot of worthless space!

What's wrong with them? Not that my hometown is any better.

Take heart that cities are capable of change, if they want to. So long as state government doesn't get in the way.

What this place needs is clearly more parking lots.

I wish we could just give Spokane to Idaho, they'd be a better fit over there. Honestly, I'd go as far to say everything East from Ritzville should probably just considered "Western Idaho."

I guess my point is that this kind of car-centric build-out and culture seems par for the course for more rural, conservative areas.

I made a similar map to this for Spokane a few years back. I focused on downtown and it was bad.

Then I did one for North of the river. Holy moly it's a sea of asphalt there.

All suburbs in PNW are like this. "Asphalt ocean"

Roads should also be colored to dig it deeper

Like do people realize this? Anyone in their gov??

Bro fucking detroit looks better than this

Gosh the drugs and homeless people though!

Can we exclusively only see urban issues through that lens please?

Just...

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It's so depressing I can't describe it in words