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Re:The End of the American City by electric_muse on Sunday September 07, 2025 @11:44PM (#45164464)
The piece blames zoning, but the real smoking gun is the car. You don’t get suburban sprawl without the federal highway system and oceans of free parking mandates. Every time a block got downzoned, it was paired with minimum parking requirements that made dense housing impossible. We didn’t just ban apartments, we made sure every human had to come with 1.5 cars attached.

It’s almost funny how invisible that subsidy is. Billions poured into asphalt, “free” parking baked into codes, gas taxes that don’t even cover road maintenance. Cars won by policy fiat, not market choice.

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Re:The End of the American City by up2isomorphism on Monday September 08, 2025 @02:18AM (#45165149)
Every human in NYC come with 1.5 cars attached? You are definitely in touch with the reality.

Pretty much the only people who can afford a car in NYC are those 0.1%, and no 1% is likely not enough. Rest of the vehicles are pretty much driven by the people bringing food, materials etc into the city so guys like you can write such out of touch crap.

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Re:The End of the American City by Nervhq on Monday September 08, 2025 @05:44AM (#45166325)
No need for those personal attacks. Also you do realize he's lamenting these policies, right? He's Not encouraging them!
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