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The US still hasn't finished industrializing/urbanizing, so we still have relatively large rural populations that drive longer distances to go to and from store
by galangalalgol 4y ago
The US still hasn't finished industrializing/urbanizing, so we still have relatively large rural populations that drive longer distances to go to and from stores schools etc. The schools can't even cover the area they serve with bus service for children. Those areas will continue to meed cars, and they aren't a corner case, they are still roughly a fifth of the population.
And buses dont work that well in suburbia and that is over half of the population. Only about a quarter of the US lives in denser urban environments.
- nextstep 4y agoI think you hit the nail on the head: instead of large, sprawling suburban cities built around the car, the US will need to rebuild cities around humans who walk and take bikes.
- galangalalgol 4y agoCompleting the automation of agriculture is the only thing that would drive a significant fraction of the rural fifth into cities, and rebuilding suburbia to be denser is fighting against market trends. I'm betting we get self driving cars first, and I'm not at all sure I disagree with the article's title.