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Cars are terrible for land usage. Car infrastructure takes up much more space than alternative transit infrastructure options.
by TaylorAlexander 3y ago
Cars are terrible for land usage. Car infrastructure takes up much more space than alternative transit infrastructure options.
- baggy_trough 3y agoMinimizing road surface area and the like is not a very important issue compared to the land usage flexibility cars bring.
- TaylorAlexander 3y agoIt’s not just roads, it’s parking lots. Our most valuable land in cities is covered in huge swaths of asphalt instead of dense urban housing. This is a poor use of land. It didn’t even used to be this way. We knocked down buildings in cities in the mid century to make more room to park cars. Roads of course are useful for economic activity, but we’ve gone so hard in to roads that every person has to have their own car. If we put more commuters on trains, we could still have roads for trucks and other things that don’t work well for trains. But with every person needing a car, way too much land gets swallowed by parking and road infrastructure.