Are we going to eminent domain people homes and start bulldozing cities down to redesign them and fix the problem?
My friend right here describing what Texas is doing to expand highways because 8 lanes are not enough.
You have it the other way around, car centric infrastructure is what requires destroying cities to build larger streets and gigantic parking lots. Moving away from it starts with eliminating minimum parking requirements and single use zoning laws, couple that with investment on public transit and you have the recipe for human scale neighbors where you are not obligated to own a car just to survive.
Yeah what Texas is doing sounds pretty horrible, I’m not disagreeing with that. You mention a couple of steps that could be taken to partially remedy the problem and begin correcting the course, but from what I’ve seen, the anti-car movement calls for entirely walkable cities, and what you’ve stated is not enough to achieve that.
The city that I’m living in is probably one of the most extreme examples of urban sprawl that I know of. Making my city walkable and not dependent on cars would be impossible without consolidating the population to a much smaller area.
My friend right here describing what Texas is doing to expand highways because 8 lanes are not enough.
You have it the other way around, car centric infrastructure is what requires destroying cities to build larger streets and gigantic parking lots. Moving away from it starts with eliminating minimum parking requirements and single use zoning laws, couple that with investment on public transit and you have the recipe for human scale neighbors where you are not obligated to own a car just to survive.
Yeah what Texas is doing sounds pretty horrible, I’m not disagreeing with that. You mention a couple of steps that could be taken to partially remedy the problem and begin correcting the course, but from what I’ve seen, the anti-car movement calls for entirely walkable cities, and what you’ve stated is not enough to achieve that.
The city that I’m living in is probably one of the most extreme examples of urban sprawl that I know of. Making my city walkable and not dependent on cars would be impossible without consolidating the population to a much smaller area.