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Re:Road dust and its effect on human health: a literature re... by dahfizz on Monday July 25, 2022 @02:20PM (#32228677)
Imagine wanting to live in the same square mile as millions of other people and then getting upset that you have to deal with millions of other people trying to live their life.

If you require everyone around you to to have the same priorities as you, then you may be happier in a smaller town.

Re:Road dust and its effect on human health: a literature re... by 1270018080 on Monday July 25, 2022 @02:36PM (#32228934)
Are you suggesting car drivers move to smaller towns where it's actually economically efficient to use them? You wouldn't want car drivers imposing their noise, pollution, financial cost, infrastructure cost, and displacement on the millions of other people trying to live their life. It's very insightful of you to imply that cities should be designed for people, and not cars, so those millions can actually use the density to their advantage.
Re:Road dust and its effect on human health: a literature re... by hedora on Monday July 25, 2022 @04:48PM (#32230705)
How about this? Let's move the population of Dallas Fort Worth to San Francisco, and vice versa, and see how quickly people's opinions about vehicle ownership change.

The main issue with having cars (or not) is that infrastructure that costs many orders of magnitude more than the cars has to be rebuilt if you want to switch between car-dependent and walk/bike-everywhere.

Re:Road dust and its effect on human health: a literature re... by giraffe_lady on Monday July 25, 2022 @02:40PM (#32228995)
Yes absolutely, the only way for many people to live in one place is for them all to drive cars for all trips within that place. There are no other possible configurations.