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pogo_rabid posted...

It's not just cities, but the entire country has been designed in a way where public transport is not feasible for the vast majority of people. For example, the nearest bus stop in my town is a almost a 1 mile walk, and the return trip would be all uphill with no sidewalks available. You effectively need cars to get anywhere around here and no amount of city planning will fix this. Even starting fresh with a brand new town, the terrain here doesn't allow for that kind of thing in a reasonable manner.

I mean the two things you described can easily fixed. Adding sidewalks and bus stops isn't a very complex thing to do. Transit systems are starting to include services for on-demand transport, think Uber but it's public and costs the same as a public transit ride would. Some communities with low population density where you can't justify running empty buses every 10 minutes already do that and it works well. "no sidewalks available" is one of the most baffling thing i often see in suburbs, and also not difficult to fix. Same for lack of cycling infrastructures. Again, it's not because it's impossible, it's just the lack of political will.

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