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*cars destroy cities Interesting take, can you give an example of a nice city destroyed by cars?
by zolbrek 3y ago
*cars destroy cities
Interesting take, can you give an example of a nice city destroyed by cars?
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- undersuit 3y agoMost US cities require parking to be built when you build a new location. You know what my city doesn't require? A safe connection between the required city side walk through the required parking lot to the business.
- evomassiny 3y agoHouston comes to mind, it has a very low walkbility index (see https://pedestriansfirst.itdp.org/ https://pedestriansfirst.itdp.org/).
- CamperBob2 3y agoPeople are free to leave at any time, yet the city has a population of almost 2.3 million. Not bad for a "destroyed" city.
- evomassiny 3y agoPopulation count is just one of many metrics when evaluating the "niceness" of a place. Maybe "destroyed" is not the best way of describing the effect of car dependency (my english is not that good) but a city that doesn't value walking sounds like hell to me.
- panick21_ 3y agoThe reality is, people want walk-able neighborhoods. In fact, the places where they exists, they are so horrendously expensive that people can't afford to live there. There are so few of those places that the demand/supply is just crazy. So even if there was a good walk-able neighborhood most people couldn't afford it. The Texas DoT isn't about transportation, its basically about highway building (and often right threw neighborhoods). 60 years of infrastructure investment in on thing lead to more of that thing. There are about 160 car accidents a day in Houston alone. The amount of cost society gets from that is huge.