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>”By why can’t we build more places like that, and making living car free easy and practical for everyone? It’s ultimately cheaper…” This is true for new devel
by BuyMyBitcoins 3y ago
>”By why can’t we build more places like that, and making living car free easy and practical for everyone? It’s ultimately cheaper…”
This is true for new development but converting existing infrastructure is massively expensive and politically fraught. I believe people have become convinced cars are bad but haven’t truly realized the sheer amount of money and time it would take to redesign and reconstruct cities and suburbs in the US.
I’m not saying it shouldn’t be done. Just that the effort required will take generations, perhaps centuries, to actually come to fruition. In the meantime people shouldn’t be exasperated when wondering why we don’t just redevelop our cities.
- avianlyric 3y agoThe Netherlands looks at lot like the U.S. 30 years ago, and now it’s the cycling Mecca of the world. That isn’t to argue that the U.S. can pull off the same trick in the same manner, but it clearly demonstrates that is possible to achieve in a single generation. A big part to achieving that change was simply changing laws to make it possible, and replacing car infrastructure with shared car and cycle infrastructure as part of the normal infrastructure replacement process. In the U.S. today, it’s almost impossible to build anything except suburbs of single family home due to zoning laws. So a good first step for the U.S. would simply be changing zoning laws to make it possible to even build dense urban areas with transit, rather than only urban sprawl.