Huh. While I live in Canada, I've long been frustrated by the modern design of stores. Parking used to be in the back, and you walked around the front to the door, which had access via the sidewalk. Now? Your big stores sit smack in the middle of a parking-lot sea, where pedestrians have to play dodge-car, for the most part. I just thought it was a deliberate, pro-cartard decision to deliberately discourage walking. Because for all the fuss about "get on a bike" from the 80s and 90s, no one actually redesigned anywhere to be more pedestrian or bike friendly (and this city is probably one of the fucking worst, even for its "small" size). And bike trails basically got treated like tourist routes that don't need to go anywhere actually useful (and bicycles should never be expected to share with either cars or pedestrians).

Huh. While I live in Canada, I've long been frustrated by the modern design of stores. Parking used to be in the back, and you walked around the front to the door, which had access via the sidewalk. Now? Your big stores sit smack in the middle of a parking-lot sea, where pedestrians have to play dodge-car, for the most part. I just thought it was a deliberate, pro-cartard decision to deliberately discourage walking. Because for all the fuss about "get on a bike" from the 80s and 90s, no one actually redesigned anywhere to be more pedestrian or bike friendly (and this city is probably one of the fucking worst, even for its "small" size). And bike trails basically got treated like tourist routes that don't need to go anywhere actually useful.