I don't blame cars, I blame overregulation favoring cars. If we believe in people's freedom to choose, why do we have strict minimum parking requirements and strict zoning laws that make coffee shops and convenience stores illegal in most neighborhoods.
But at the same time, car companies and bus companies lobbied gov't officials to rip out street cars and build more roads for single occupancy vehicles. Luckily dozens of cities across the USA have recently eliminated parking mandates!! I work as a City Planner in Staten Island, and surprisingly still has parking minimums even though it's technically part of NYC
The car-centric city movement is not against the highway system or cars; it's against destroying the entire fabric of cities designed for people and eliminating any, if not all, possibilities for other people who do not own a personal house, a personal vehicle and do not want to spend half of their workable day driving. The shipping out of employment from the city centers and the massive divide between poorer neighborhoods with no social mobility and richer neighborhoods provoke the problem.
Not only have cars destoryed cities, they destroy people. Both literally and figuratively. You don't get "road rage" from walking on the street, and you sure as hell wont kill someone by walking and glancing down at your phone.
Yes, cars have destroyed cities. Those european ways are 63743232x better. Cities are meant for people not cars. The economy is actually better without them.
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I don't blame cars, I blame overregulation favoring cars. If we believe in people's freedom to choose, why do we have strict minimum parking requirements and strict zoning laws that make coffee shops and convenience stores illegal in most neighborhoods.
Interesting point.
But at the same time, car companies and bus companies lobbied gov't officials to rip out street cars and build more roads for single occupancy vehicles. Luckily dozens of cities across the USA have recently eliminated parking mandates!! I work as a City Planner in Staten Island, and surprisingly still has parking minimums even though it's technically part of NYC
@@tonyc5335 yes, but cars are blameworthy as well.
The car-centric city movement is not against the highway system or cars; it's against destroying the entire fabric of cities designed for people and eliminating any, if not all, possibilities for other people who do not own a personal house, a personal vehicle and do not want to spend half of their workable day driving. The shipping out of employment from the city centers and the massive divide between poorer neighborhoods with no social mobility and richer neighborhoods provoke the problem.
With cars being as expensive as they are i hope more affordable alternatives are pushed
Not only have cars destoryed cities, they destroy people. Both literally and figuratively. You don't get "road rage" from walking on the street, and you sure as hell wont kill someone by walking and glancing down at your phone.
Yes, cars have destroyed cities. Those european ways are 63743232x better. Cities are meant for people not cars. The economy is actually better without them.
Cars didn't destroy cities. People did.