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It really is. Have you been in New York? In the area that this is being implemented in, you can absolutely survive without ever setting foot in a car.

Other cities should have been planned around density. Instead we have suburban hellscapes where kids can’t be kids and there’s no real community. The car has been the single most destructive piece of mass-adopted tech for urban planning and lifestyle.

If we have to start new cities to replace the disasters we created, better to rip off the bandaid now. Sucks that we used some of the best land in the country.




Couldn't agree more. I moved out of LA to get the fk away from car culture. Now I live and work near dt Seattle where everything is relatively walkable, and my car is used at most twice a month for random things that I honestly don't need anyways. Obviously Seattle is not even close to a real walkable city like Amsterdam but miles better than LA.

Going back to LA, it is exactly what you describe. Just a concrete hellscape. There are stretches where every single peice of the ground has a layer of concrete on it.

Don't even get me started with Houston.


I’m not going to say LA is not a car disaster, but LA does have dozens of walkable neighborhoods to be fair. It wouldn’t be apples to apples to compare Woodland Hills to Capitol Hill (for example).

And although community parks can be in short supply, there’s hundreds of thousands of acres of open space in the Santa Monica and San Gabriel mountains.


> Instead we have suburban hellscapes where kids can’t be kids and there’s no real community.

I'm not American, but from my perspective that's just an easy target, and the real problem is here:

https://reason.com/2014/08/19/august-2014-reason-rupe-nation...

The title itself isn't particularly shocking - it's the 43% of Americans who are of the opinion that the law should require 12 year olds to be supervised while playing in public parks is, to me, the absolutely bonkers part here.

Not saying suburban sprawl is a good thing - personally I find this sort of zoning silly. It's just that this isn't the problem you want to focus on if you want kids to be kids.


I enjoy walkable cities. I don't live in New York, but I couldn't do my job as is without a car. I simply have too much equipment. There are probably many other people in the same position.

I feel like step A should be to build better transit, not punish drivers.


I said “personal vehicles”, just fyi. Sounds like you’re describing a work truck.


Not really. I’m a photographer, not a plumber.

My Camaro is pretty full for weddings though, where I’m bringing all of my equipment + backups.


Perhaps you could think of it less as punishing drivers and more like stopping punishing everyone else for the sake of cars.




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