We Should Be Building Cities for People, Not Cars (2016)

Re:We Should Be Building Cities for People, Not Cars (2016) by thereisnospork on Thursday June 28, 2018 @08:47PM (#17421626)

Nobody needs to do much of anything, but people want to. 10 miles is 130th st to downtown Manhattan, a distance people most certainly either want or need to travel regularly. Even in the most culture/store/apartment dense corner of the country.

Now I'm all for effective public transit and dense neighborhoods, but walking and/or biking are simply worse for a lot of use cases.

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Re:We Should Be Building Cities for People, Not Cars (2016) by Karrot_Kream on Thursday June 28, 2018 @09:05PM (#17421704)

I'm not familiar with Manhattan, are you describing the phenomenon of building dense commuter urban-areas and far-flung residential areas? Because that is not part of being a walkable neighborhood.

But what stops public transit from being the solution here? In fact, over a 10 mi. radius, public transit scales much better than single-occupancy vehicles, and even fully loaded sedans. Go to Tokyo and folks take trains all day. If you're taking about low-to-medium density areas (which isn't a city) then yes, cars are the most effective.

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