Engineers designed these roads, not urbanist.
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Traffic engineering isn't a university program and we're still using studies from the 50's to dictate our traffic engineering. It's civil engineers in NA who are forced to follow outdated policy which maximizes for car traffic flow, regardless of body count or overall flow of poeple across all transit options. Generally, city planners are all for public transit and walkable and bike able cities but have to battle with politicians appealing to suburbanites with cars.
I don't understand why this is such a hard thing for people and government to understand. Your car isn't going to a place, you and the stuff you need to carry are. The car is just the means and there are many other means to do so, they just get a lot less attention and funding. Cars and traffic infrastructure have been subsidised for over a century now. Of course cars more developed, and of course we build our cities for cars, we're socializing cars.
Yes, there are many areas that have been developed so car focused that it's a necessity to own a car. People living in rural areas will always need personal cars. People in urban and suburban areas probably don't and should give up their personal vehicles so Farmer can keep theirs.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Run_challenge
Are you sure about that second one?
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all the mad car lovers in the comments lmao
Great meme and even better because its true.
Imagine getting driven everywhere and still choosing doing it on your own. These people need Steam Decks, I tell you.
I love how people just come up with this shit with their knowledge of their local area. Any train here requires driving to, and does not come and go frequently, and takes longer. Our infra is terrible.
On the flip side, some places have awesome infra and I wish I had that. I'd prefer to pedal bike if I could. But where I'm at you're very likely to be killed without bike lanes or sidewalks, and it would take hours to get anywhere important - IE work.
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Excellent discourse right there