Re:Why It’s So Hard to Change People’s Commuting Behavior
by dionidium on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @05:38PM
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If you put everything in your house up on 20-ft-high shelves, then you'll need a ladder to reach anything. I don't need a ladder to reach anything in my house, because I don't keep things up on 20-ft-high-shelves.
We used to design cities so that your school, child care, stores, gyms, club meetings, and everything else, were in one neighborhood. Why would you want them anywhere else? Now we build cities so that these things are far from one another.
It's like putting everything up on 20-ft-high-shelves and insisting every house needs a series of ladders.
Re:Why It’s So Hard to Change People’s Commuting Behavior
by swiley on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @05:02PM
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Surface lots might not be so bad if people could camp in their cars, it would probably put a lot of downward pressure on the housing market and help homeless people. Those ideas tend to not be popular though.
Re:Why It’s So Hard to Change People’s Commuting Behavior
by bobthepanda on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @07:30PM
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Surface lots mostly only exist because of arbitrary government regulation requiring a minimum amount of parking. It's clearly too high, since the vast majority of developers will only ever build the absolute minimum number of parking required, and even during the busiest shopping days of the year American parking lots aren't really full.
It would be a lot better to just free up the parking lots as actual developable land.
Re:Why It’s So Hard to Change People’s Commuting Behavior
by cscurmudgeon on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @11:05PM
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Camp in parking lots with children and elderly parents?
It just so happens that Americans have placed everything to require driving, so all these places need massive surface lots, spreading things out even further and then requiring even more driving and disadvantaging non-driving modes in a vicious cycle.