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Re:Car-Free Streets Will Soon Be the Norm by jjoonathan on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @12:14PM (#21764505)
Decreasing someone's range increases their costs, a lot, because it effectively makes real estate more scarce and removes distant retail competition (in addition to increasing the real estate cost of retail).

My intuition says the effect size is going to be a multiple of what it costs to maintain a cheap car.

Re:Car-Free Streets Will Soon Be the Norm by ogre_codes on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @01:08PM (#21765092)
This has been demonstrated to be false.

Probably one of the biggest reasons is real estate increases in the denser areas as parking infrastructure gets phased out. Parking is a massive waste of land.

Re:Car-Free Streets Will Soon Be the Norm by jjoonathan on Thursday December 12, 2019 @10:16AM (#21772429)
Oh? Link me.

My guess: real estate costs go down short-term if you add a bunch of supply by getting rid of parking, and then they go right back up, plus some, once the market equilibrates.

Meanwhile, I'll continue to enjoy having 5x the space at half the cost as when I lived in the city, with 5 grocery stores 10 minutes away instead of 2 grocery stores 30 minutes away. Not to mention parks, trees, and nature trails for running.

Re:Car-Free Streets Will Soon Be the Norm by ogre_codes on Thursday December 12, 2019 @02:17PM (#21775237)
The problem you describe is a fabricated hypothetical which has never happened in the real world. It's proven false by every single bike/ pedestrian friendly city in the world.

Similarly, increasing range has had little to no positive effect on housing prices. Look at the insane real estate prices in the California Bay Area or LA which are both very car-first locations.