> Highways are not bad per se ... To pick a nit: in the US, neither the Interstate Highway system nor the State Highway systems have much to do with car-centri

> Highways are not bad per se ... To pick a nit: in the US, neither the Interstate Highway system nor the State Highway systems have much to do with car-centric design in cities and neighborhoods. [0] I used to live in a vaguely large-ish city that had both a State Highway, and an Interstate Highway that ran through it. These were two four-to-ten-lane [1] roads out of many, many, many other roads of widely varying widths and lengths. The city was car-centric not because of the two highways that ran through it, but because the city managers never, ever made alternatives to private car ownership a priority of any sort. [0] I mean, other than vaguely encouraging individual car ownership by making it relatively easy to cross large distances in an automobile. But, both highway systems play a big part in making inter- and intra-state shipping economical. Not only do we derive a huge amount of good from this property of the system, properly funded and designed public transit systems can also take advantage of these roads to enable city residents to ditch their cars. [1] The Interstate varied in width, depending on where you were. Once you got out of the city, it was most frequently a divided four-lane road.