99% of development over the past half century has been focused on making it optimal for driving, at the expense of the ~20% of people that can not even drive. A

99% of development over the past half century has been focused on making it optimal for driving, at the expense of the ~20% of people that can not even drive. And this wasn't because the market decided to do that, it's all been mandated by law. I think it's good to have a diversity of types of development. Just as people who don't want to drive shouldn't expect access to car-dependent environments to be easy, people in cars shouldn't expect the very few pockets of hard-won walkable environments to be optimal for driving into.