Comment by ryanj20021 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by ryanj20021 | Hacker News Reader

We can and we are!

I’m the CEO of Culdesac. Our vision is to build the first car-free city in the US, starting with the first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US. That’s Culdesac Tempe, a 1000-resident neighborhood that is under construction now. Residents move in next year.

Join our waitlist at culdesac.com. If you want to visit in the meantime, drop me a note. We have something exciting happening on site next month that is open to the public.

Hiring-wise, we're hiring in Tempe or remote. Dm me on socials if you can’t find something. https://www.culdesac.com/jobs

Here's our insta, which has lots of construction updates https://www.instagram.com/liveculdesac

Here's our tik tok https://www.tiktok.com/@liveculdesac

Here's our twitter https://www.twitter.com/culdesac

Here's my twitter where I also talk a lot about ebikes https://www.twitter.com/ryanmjohnson

Here's our intro article https://medium.com/culdesac/introducing-culdesac-3fbfe7c4219...

Here's a longer piece on us https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/10/31/busi...

So FYI, this is really off-putting. You've got a few sentences that I might be interested in (but not really, there's nothing about how this is actually going to solve the problems except for "if you build it they will come"), and 4x that amount of CTA and social media spam.

I'd much rather read a substantive comment about how your neighborhood is going to solve the challenges of being car-free, how it's going to interface with the rest of Tempe, etc. Directly on here, not just a link to your website and definitely not via a Medium or AMP link. A couple of links for further reading would be plenty.

"Culdesac" sends the opposite message to what most of the Strongtowns crowd believes in: a proper grid where everyone takes their share of the cross-town traffic, instead of selfish suburbia that funnels everyone onto highways.

> Our vision is to build the first car-free city in the US

What if I like my car, and the ability to easily travel outside the city limits that comes along with it?

you don't have to move there, its not a personal attack on you.

> its not a personal attack on you.

Who is implying that it is?

You.

Then you would probably choose to live somewhere else?

I'm raising this point because it seems like an idea that's mostly targeted at a very specific HN subculture. The shared area in the venn diagram of people who want to live without cars and people who want to live outside the urban core of a large city is quite small.

While it's great there are efforts here, it looks like it's being over-architected, over-engineered, such that people don't own it. This leads to uneasy privacy concerns and dystopian feels. I'm not sure what the solution is, and at least this is an attempt, so at least there is that.

How is this not spam?

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