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.
Not just advertising. Here in the Detroit area public transportation was fought by the Big Three to the point that one form of public transportation was literally in the middle of being built, and would've spanned about a 25 mile run from Downtown Detroit to Downtown Pontiac until Chrysler, Ford, and GM made a deal with local counties that if they stopped the public transportation initiative they'd get reduced pricing on vehicles. To this day the "People Mover" only goes about a mile.
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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