But I’m in the US, and in a low density suburb that’s borderline rural. I expect to be driving or using the car equivalent (robo taxies/buses that are actually good?) for the rest of my life. But I’ve set myself up to need to drive much less, which makes the driving itself more enjoyable.
Unfucking transportation is just so far down the list of things that this place needs to unfuck. Given recent history, I’ll be surprised if widespread modern efficient public transit even gets serious mainstream political discussion in my lifetime.
We don’t need to fix your suburb’s transportation if it becomes a ghost town.
If cheap high quality high density housing is built elsewhere, and property taxes are updated to reflect the actual infrastructural costs of those buildings to the government, very few people will want to live there.
It would be great to see this happen.
But I’m in the US, and in a low density suburb that’s borderline rural. I expect to be driving or using the car equivalent (robo taxies/buses that are actually good?) for the rest of my life. But I’ve set myself up to need to drive much less, which makes the driving itself more enjoyable.
Unfucking transportation is just so far down the list of things that this place needs to unfuck. Given recent history, I’ll be surprised if widespread modern efficient public transit even gets serious mainstream political discussion in my lifetime.
We don’t need to fix your suburb’s transportation if it becomes a ghost town.
If cheap high quality high density housing is built elsewhere, and property taxes are updated to reflect the actual infrastructural costs of those buildings to the government, very few people will want to live there.