• Lv_InSaNe_vL
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    why would they buy a car when they can pay the same price for public transport

    They answered that

    In some parts of the US not having a car would be a real problem

    And truthfully, for a not insignificant part of the country, it won’t be. Population densities just wouldn’t support it.

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      why would they buy a car when they can pay the same price for public transport

      They answered that

      Basically, because they have no choice. More public transportation is choice.

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        Yes it’s definitely 100% a reasonable choice for people who don’t even technically live in cities. Absolutely

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          @Lv_InSaNe_vL @Malfeasant I’m happy to limit the ‘no personal cars’ to areas that are 1/4 acre blocks and below. (Remembering that a 1/4 acre block gets back a substantial amount of useful land when you delete the driveway, so blocks all become ‘bigger’ in such a system)

          Places that are substantially less dense than that do benefit from cars. But that isn’t that large a % of people, while it is a very large % of the land mass.

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            3 days ago

            10% of Americans live in towns of under 10000 people.

            I wouldn’t call that “insignificant” lmao

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              @Lv_InSaNe_vL The only person in this thread to use ‘insignificant’ is you. So who are you quoting?

              And towns of less than 10,000 people still have a healthy chunk of people living in suburban density.