A Norwegian man rollerblading from New York to Los Angeles was killed after being hit by an SUV near Salina, Kansas, officials said.

SALINE COUNTY, Kan. (KWCH/Gray News) — A Norwegian man attempting to rollerblade across the U.S. was killed in a hit-and-run in Kansas, officials said.

The Saline County Sheriff’s Office identified the man as 24-year-old Joachim Lanham.

Lanham was documenting his rollerblading journey across the U.S. on Instagram. According to a post from his family, he was hit by an SUV on day 22 of his journey from New York to Los Angeles

  • GarboDog@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    True, but like we’ve worked in retail multiple times in usa and the trucks were usually like half filled or not well put together even though they were semi trucks it felt wasteful all the time (and this was direct from warehouse to our stores)

    Here in Spain, it’s just small delivery vans or compact trucks, but they only go to huge chains, the small grocery store down stairs only have a normal van. Once you have priority of walking, the stores are usually way smaller and closer together so you don’t need large trucks

    • alcoholicorn@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 days ago

      The amount of stuff transported is largely a function of population density; if you have 10 groceries serving 50000 vs 100 groceries serving 50000 people, you’re not reducing the amount of stuff that needs to be transported.

      So the traffic effects get worse the more dispersed the warehouses are as they spend more time on the road driving longer distances and the smaller the average capacity of the vehicles.

      You wouldn’t want 1 warehouse at the edge of a city of >1 million unleashing a flood of vans ir cargobikes on the city.

      • GarboDog@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        22 hours ago

        Yeah ig so, but we also don’t have semi trucks all over our city for grocery shops, usually small trucks, vans or bikes. So not sure how it works here fully ig? Only one place here that we know for sure uses semi trucks is the mall.

        We’re not sure what the best solution would be personally, but even here semi trucks give way to pedestrians where pedestrians are. So possibly have areas where pedestrians can’t be (like normal roads and stuff). Though admittedly never thought of this extensively so next time we’re working on our fantasy cities for D&D or comic week have to keep it in mind and study up on efficient ways to do retail deliveries! :3