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a. Part of the problem is that people want to live outside city? Should we force people to live in cities or what? b. It's not a failure of society, it's just

a. Part of the problem is that people want to live outside city? Should we force people to live in cities or what? b. It's not a failure of society, it's just the nature of public transport - you simply can't provide direct connections from anywhere to anywhere, you'll always have to walk from/to stations and change lines. The city I live in, although in Europe, is very well communicated, but I work in such place that I can't get there directly from where I live and the whole trip using public transport takes me an hour one way, while with car it's 15 minutes. Now tell me that I should use public transport and waste 40 hours in buses each month. c. Renting a car doesn't resolve any of the issues mentioned in the article - you still drive a car, just not yours.

alistairSH 11y ago
a. Force? No, of course not. But suburban sprawl is not a sustainable development pattern. We should be incentivizing denser development, support by quality public transit. b. You can't link everything, but in many parts of the US, we haven't even tried. Take DC - we have a basic metro downtown, but precious little rail access from the suburbs. There is no light rail across Fairfax or Montgomery Counties. The subway that exists is falling apart because local governments refuse to provide appropriate funding. c. It means you aren't driving during the week, only when you actually need to get out of the city. If enough people car-share, there are fewer cars being produced (building cars is resource-intensive).