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Re:20-Minute Neighborhoods by dublinben on Thursday March 25, 2021 @04:24PM (#26584920)
Rural areas existed before the invention of the automobile. Rural communities can still be dense and support active transportation (walking, cycling, etc.) for many people's daily activities.

Most people don't live in rural areas though, so the kinds of solutions (free cars!) that might work there are not appropriate for urban and suburban areas.

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Re:20-Minute Neighborhoods by munificent on Thursday March 25, 2021 @05:02PM (#26585348)
> Rural areas existed before the invention of the automobile.

Yes, and farming was ubiquitous and highly labor intensive then. In 1940, the US had about 13 million farm workers. Today it's about 3 million.

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Re:20-Minute Neighborhoods by sandworm101 on Thursday March 25, 2021 @08:00PM (#26587253)
Farms were also much smaller.
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