> The next thing should preserve the immense freedom and flexibility that cars brought. "Freedom" is a weird word to use for cars. Cities that have been confi

> The next thing should preserve the immense freedom and flexibility that cars brought. "Freedom" is a weird word to use for cars. Cities that have been configured for automobile supremacy, actually lack freedom. Every business, every residential area, every road has to be planned and sized to accommodate parking and mobility of cars. In addition to stimulating sprawl and it's enormous costs, this limits the actual freedom and choices of people who can't or won't drive. Even ex-burb homeowners whose every trip begins and ends in a parking spot eventually get pissed as the only way for a city to grow is then to pave more and more highways, and spread out in distance making automobile commutes a daily misery literally spanning oceans of asphalt.