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One side effect of not having sidewalks and not being connected to public transit is it segregates the neighborhood from the poor and especially the homeless.
by jandrese 2y ago
One side effect of not having sidewalks and not being connected to public transit is it segregates the neighborhood from the poor and especially the homeless. People were fleeing cities and were putting up walls around their neighborhoods via zoning and car centric design.
- throwthrowuknow 2y agoNot everything is a conspiracy, sidewalks cost a lot of money to build and maintain, they cause problems with water runoff from roads often necessitating storm drains which cost even more money. Car centric design is an obvious necessity of being a bedroom community built on inexpensive rural land some distance outside of city boundaries.
- underlipton 2y agoThe "bedroom community built on inexpensive rural land some distance outside of city boundaries" in my area was actually connected to the city by electric railway lines (whose right-of-ways still largely exist, as bike paths). This was before the big mid-century paradigm that GP describes, which absolutely was a(n open) conspiracy to create racially-segregated communities. There were a lot of amenities that these communities went out of their way to fund, so expense was a concern only inasmuch as the money that would have gone to sidewalks instead went to a community pool or bike paths or water/trash services.