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You'll find that commuting time has stayed fairly stable, we just travel further now. Poor policies and the car create sprawl, not growth. Visit a city that de
by benj111 8y ago
You'll find that commuting time has stayed fairly stable, we just travel further now.
Poor policies and the car create sprawl, not growth. Visit a city that developed pre car, no sprawl. New York was designed with massively wide streets, space for all the things you cite and didn't suffer from sprawl.
"parking space for convenient door-to-door transport slightly increases it."
Slightly? I can't think of any shop with dedicated parking where the shop is bigger than the car park. Then think of all the houses with a driveway that you pass on the way to work. Each drive is an extra 8ft of frontage, that's an extra 8ft road to be built, and that you need to drive back and forth every day, and that's just the ones you can see.
- azeotropic 8y agoI find the assertion that NYC didn't sprawl somewhat odd. Weren't all the city's parks on the frontier of the city when Olmstead laid them out? (and, in the process, invented the "parking space") "Slightly? I can't think of any shop with dedicated parking where the shop is bigger than the car park." WalMart? Home Depot? Kroger? IKEA? I can show google maps if desired, but that's definitely not uncommon in the U.S. That extra 8ft of frontage is also extra backyard, which many people enjoy. I don't think people choose to live so far apart because they have cars, they live so far apart because they want to, and the car makes it possible. I suspect many would love to live even further apart if they could.