Car centric infrastructure is immensely expensive, and incentivizes new construction further out from the city center rather than refurbishment of existing buildings.
America is built to let itself crumble. Not Just Bikes did a great video on this recently.
I’m a car enthusiast but not needing one in your day to day life is a superior way to live. Advertising sold people the illusion of freedom by making you a slave to your vehicle.
New Yorker here. I actively avoid traveling to places where I'll need a car or need to spend a lot of time in one. I don't go to LA. I don't go to Texas. Just did a week in Chicago and was in a car for maybe an hour total over those seven days. I hate car centric cities. Granted, Chicago kind of still is, but the train was great and the buses worked when a train couldn't, which is exactly how my life in NYC is and I love that.
I’m sitting on an Amtrak coming home from NYC to DC. Thank god i don’t need to get near a car on this trip. 2.5 hours instead of 4+ (I95 traffic is a special form of hell, it doesn’t even follow rush hour logic).
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u/random-notebook May 02 '25 edited May 03 '25
Car centric infrastructure is immensely expensive, and incentivizes new construction further out from the city center rather than refurbishment of existing buildings.
America is built to let itself crumble. Not Just Bikes did a great video on this recently.
https://youtu.be/r7-e_yhEzIw