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Originally Posted by sigma
The US is going to have to get over its obsession with subburbs, 12- lane interstates (that are always parking lots by the time they are finished), and cars.
We are going to have to start doing some serious urban planning, verticle construction and a massive expansion of mass transit which should not only connect the inner cities, but also link the subburbs to the cities.
I know everyone likes to rail on San Francisco and the Bay Area in general (or the Metropolis known as the Eastern Seaboard from DC to Boston) but they do have mass transit and verticle construction figured out. For a great example as to how this works google BART (or just click on the link). |
I agree with you 100%. I don't even drive my car on weekends anymore (if I have to go to the store, I walk, if it's cold I wear a heavier jacket) and I don't really miss my car.If it wasn't for the fact that over the last 20-30 years...the people who plan our comminities shunned effective mass transit for sprawling suburbs and lack of efficient and available mass transit...I would hardly drive at all.The 1990's, with our economy rolling along and the government running much smaller deficits than now....that was the time when 'our leaders' in Washington should have had some forward looking thinking and used those good times to actually do something productive with that economy we had. Instead, either our country as a whole decided we'd rather 'live for today' or the politicians just found it to easy to not promote transit systems that would be effective.I know if I had a train or subway station within even a mile of my house that led to a downtown area (or the airport, or a shopping mall), I would use the transit system all of the time instead of driving.