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Also sales of cars have strongly decreased during the pandemic. Transportation in general has decreased.

The article seems hell-bent on having people using mass-transportation. Mass transportation is a tool to an end. If we have a lot of hammers because we used to nail a lot of things, and now we don't, we shouldn't try to force people to use hammers just for the sake of using them.



This is not true!!! Demand for cars is at all time highs and car prices are also at all time highs...


Car demand hasn't changed much, but there's fewer new cars being made right now. Less supply means higher prices.


Invest in mass transportation, as well as walkable communities and more people will use it. But, everything costs something.

There are externalities too.

Which is it?

Sell more cars, take those externalities, or live leaner, gamble on the economics working out differently and that being OK?

Someone is gonna lose. Could be a lot of us losing, or maybe not, depending.


Another option is transforming our communities to build workspaces closer to where people live instead of requiring long commutes to get to work.

The documentary "The End of Suburbia" talked about this possibility:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3uvzcY2Xug


Yes, I agree. Part of walkable should include work where possible.

I have lived a scenario similar to the one we are sketching out here and it was great! Live, work, play... I also had the airport available. Could walk out my front door and end up on the other coast that same day.


If sales of cars decrease because using cars less there might be an uptick in use of mass transport, because it might not be cost effective to buy a car instead of taking a bus a couple times a month.




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