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"This crowd" usually suggests revisiting the US cultural default of living in car-dependent suburbs and relying on cars for everything.
by throwaway128128 3y ago
"This crowd" usually suggests revisiting the US cultural default of living in car-dependent suburbs and relying on cars for everything.
- api 3y agoThat’s fine. We could cut probably 30-50% off our car use that way provided we could completely overrule NIMBYs and force massive urban development. That would leave the other 50-70% of the country.
- lsaferite 3y agoI feel like that was covered by the "Everyone just has to move into transit accessible cities" statement.
- Aloha 3y agoBefore that, we had horses or donkeys to get around, as far as I can tell owning a household or personal beast of burden was about as common as personal or household car ownership is now. People act like cars created a new paradigm, and they didn't - they extended and improved an old one.
- kmeisthax 3y agoIn rural areas, yes, if you had the money. In cities walking, trains, and omnibuses were just as common. Suburbs didn't exist yet - they were specifically a coinvention of cars in the same way that you can't have smartphones without the cloud.
- ajross 3y agoThe specific case in point is holiday travel, though. You can't fix that with urban planning.