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Re:GM makes $1,500 subscription mandatory on GMC, Buick, Cad... by porknubbins on Thursday August 11, 2022 @11:23AM (#32427139)
In my area its the 1950's and 60's suburbs that started to have enormous streets between houses, like 6 vehicles wide. I have always been curious why this was done.
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Re:GM makes $1,500 subscription mandatory on GMC, Buick, Cad... by panick21_ on Friday August 12, 2022 @12:27AM (#32434710)
You can read "Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town". I have not read it yet but Charles Marohn talks about this a lot.

Basically they just developed road safety principles for highways and then somehow thought it made sense for all roads no matter if there were people there.

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