This is the quintessential ignorance to everything outside of a car-centric realm that is pervasive in North America.
The more roads, the more opportunities your citizens have access to.
This is only true when you have super restrictive zoning laws. The other way is to bring the opportunities closer to the citizens i.e. have more freedom to put corner stores, shops, hospitals in neighbourhoods, instead of having only big box stores in the outskirts with acres and acres of subsidized parking.
Another problem is there are very little variety of modern condos, apartments that are big enough to raise families, so many barely fit in 1 bedroom.
Moving suburbs further out ends up adding more time on everyone’s trip, it does not make it faster at all. Unlike typical NA bus systems, a good transit system wouldn’t add that much time and unlike highways and easily ramp up capacity during peak times so that it doesn’t take 2-6 times as long due to traffic.
This is the quintessential ignorance to everything outside of a car-centric realm that is pervasive in North America.
This is only true when you have super restrictive zoning laws. The other way is to bring the opportunities closer to the citizens i.e. have more freedom to put corner stores, shops, hospitals in neighbourhoods, instead of having only big box stores in the outskirts with acres and acres of subsidized parking.
Another problem is there are very little variety of modern condos, apartments that are big enough to raise families, so many barely fit in 1 bedroom.
Moving suburbs further out ends up adding more time on everyone’s trip, it does not make it faster at all. Unlike typical NA bus systems, a good transit system wouldn’t add that much time and unlike highways and easily ramp up capacity during peak times so that it doesn’t take 2-6 times as long due to traffic.