You sound like a European who's never been to the US. >You won't be getting on a plane then? Most people don't ride planes very often. If you rely on public

You sound like a European who's never been to the US. >You won't be getting on a plane then? Most people don't ride planes very often. If you rely on public transit, you have to use it multiple times per day. People can go months or years before boarding a plane. >Perhaps the neighbourhood [sic] wouldn't be so shitty if everybody wasn't in a car isolated from their surroundings. No, the neighborhood is shitty for various other reasons which have nothing to do with cars. America has long had a problem with race relations. >Maybe, although basing your transport policy around freak events isn't that sensible. What "freak events"? Hurricanes happen here quite frequently, as do lesser storms.