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adjl posted...

Because those people understand that there's a world outside of their personal best interests.

This always comes up whenever the notion of not designing cities around cars comes up, and it's always bullshit. Nobody is suggesting the complete abolition of personal vehicles. Everybody (that actually wants to improve the situation) is just suggesting redesigning cities so that a personal vehicle isn't mandatory. Heck, these redesigns generally actually make the experience of driving better (even without considering any of the broader benefits), by virtue of having more intuitive infrastructure, fewer points of conflict, and fewer cars on the road because people routinely choose viable alternatives when they actually exist.

There are quite a few city planning advocacy youtube channels out there, so you can delve into those if you want more details, but this video in particular does a pretty good job of explaining how focusing on alternative transportation infrastructure in the Netherlands has also resulted in fantastic driving infrastructure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8RRE2rDw4k

Thinking about it as a zero-sum game is incorrect. Everybody stands to benefit from designing cities that make it easier to get around, even the people that just want to keep using their personal car for most purposes.

I think my main problem is probably the cost. It would cost a lot. And most of that would be pushed into us by taxes, I would think. From what I can remember, something like that happened in Washington State They were making some new system or something up there. And for a few years (or more), taxes were extremely high Like way higher than normal But if it would make less cars on the roads so I could drive around better, I guess thats good That said, I dont really have a lot of extra money to just give away, so Had they made malls like they were suppose to (which is apparently like the town center back in my city where I use to live according to Adam Ruins Everything), it would probably work better But that didnt happen

As for the bike garage, Id literally lose my bike every time. Haha. I can barely find my car in those parking garages, even knowing the section I was in

As for me, Id probably be better driving still for many reasons Which I guess could be better if other people didnt drive as much Though, I couldnt tell you who would and wouldnt still be driving here or back home