• @then_three_more
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    22 days ago

    I know. I just mean in general with how uber capitalist American society seems to be. It surprises me that all the roads weren’t sold if to businesses so that a profit could be made. Seems like a massive missed opportunity.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 days ago

      It seems like the forces trying to ensure car dependency won that one. I’d have much preferred a history of expensive roads because we’d have more walkable/bikable/transit oriented development this whole time.

      • @then_three_more
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        32 days ago

        If the roads were private they’d have either made walking along them chargeable or just banned that.

    • HobbitFoot
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      22 days ago

      A lot of cities learned after Chicago sold off its parking spaces.