No it’s not the same.

People taking down speed limits signs cause they want to go faster does not warrant the same response as people complaining that an intersection is unsafe and trying to improve it, and only because the city is basically ignoring them.

Nah, this road is a fucking textbook example of a bad neighborhood intersection.

Wide straight road with a hill on one side leads to unsafe driving speeds. Combined with parking at the intersection making visibility low for anyone crossing the intersection (cars, pedestrians, and bikes all included!)

This intersection needs intervention, and a stop sign is a bare minimum solution. Speed bumps and daylighting would also be justified.

We know we build unsafe intersections, we don’t need a traffic study to confirm it, especially if you have a large number of residents with the same complaint.

If 50 people sign a petition, you don’t need to do a study. Just put in the fucking stop sign.

Yeah that’s kind of ridiculous.

But if we’re being honest, most Americans don’t even have access to a corner store.

My newest grocery store is a 2 mile bike ride away. It’s not awful, but it’s also not that great. And my friends in apartments I’ve visited are even worse. I am at least lucky that the main road I have has a multi-use path that makes it tolerable.

In many places in the us, apartments are built in such a way where they come with all the negatives, but also without many of the upsides that apartments should have.

I know several people who live in apartments, but there still isn’t anywhere to walk to anyways!

Sure you might be able to, but if it requires crossing 80m of asphalt just to cross a street no one is going to do it.