OMG this is the Tall One's eternal rant on Twitter: "in fact congestion is a result of induced demand, which means that the more road there is, the more people will drive on it." He further points out the irony that roads are working best when they're practically empty, whereas public transportation is working best when it's full. Why would you make a system that depends on lack of use to work?? [ETA: Just asked him, and he says yes, he owns it!]
He's also always posting comparisons of charming European and Japanese city streets, which are **narrow** and shared among cars, pedestrians, bicycles, buses, etc., which have a sense of cohesion and neighborhood.... and America's desolate wide streets.
Big-box stores--or for that matter, any location designed to be gotten to by car by a large number of people, like our church--are fronted by an expanse of asphalt, huge lifeless deserts that people have to struggle across, like survivors of an apocalypse, to get to the destination. Car mentality imagines nodes that are places of interest, and nothingness in between--and **generates** this! Huge awful spaces that you're just meant to... pretend aren't there.
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Date: 2019-01-30 12:33 am (UTC)He's also always posting comparisons of charming European and Japanese city streets, which are **narrow** and shared among cars, pedestrians, bicycles, buses, etc., which have a sense of cohesion and neighborhood.... and America's desolate wide streets.
Big-box stores--or for that matter, any location designed to be gotten to by car by a large number of people, like our church--are fronted by an expanse of asphalt, huge lifeless deserts that people have to struggle across, like survivors of an apocalypse, to get to the destination. Car mentality imagines nodes that are places of interest, and nothingness in between--and **generates** this! Huge awful spaces that you're just meant to... pretend aren't there.