Not only are the proportions really misguided, but the thing is even the road funding is too low. We’re way behind in infrastructure, and yes we still need to be able to get around with personal vehicles
Just saw the video from “Not Just Bikes” a few days ago on this exact topic.
The biggest middle finger is that everyone of the people behind these projects knew it would become too expensive to maintain but they all decided it wasn’t their problem to solve cause by then they would be long since retired from their position by the time it became a relevant issue.
Not only that but suburban areas are actually built using loans that can’t be paid back bc suburban areas produce so little taxes they aren’t self sustaining
That’s the thing that gets me about the “but I want to live in a single-family house, not an apartment” people: it’s like, sure, that’d be fine if you were willing to actually pay for the true cost of it instead of forcing society to subsidize your lifestyle!
But then they cant just afford it with a single working adult in the family like that was ever long term viable instead of a short period of specifically american history that was never gonna last because that’s just not possible without either completely rolling over the environment or other countries. The horror!
Not that there aren’t plenty of issues with the cost and time requirement of having a family, but my god this whining like life isnt worth living if you can’t buy a single family home is annoying me.
Not only are the proportions really misguided, but the thing is even the road funding is too low. We’re way behind in infrastructure, and yes we still need to be able to get around with personal vehicles
Ironically the reason we can’t keep up with car infrastructure is because there’s too much of it.
It much more costly to maintain, especially when scaling to more lanes.
Reducing space given to cars and giving more to bikes/buses/trains would make it easier to upkeep our current roads.
Just saw the video from “Not Just Bikes” a few days ago on this exact topic.
The biggest middle finger is that everyone of the people behind these projects knew it would become too expensive to maintain but they all decided it wasn’t their problem to solve cause by then they would be long since retired from their position by the time it became a relevant issue.
Not only that but suburban areas are actually built using loans that can’t be paid back bc suburban areas produce so little taxes they aren’t self sustaining
That’s the thing that gets me about the “but I want to live in a single-family house, not an apartment” people: it’s like, sure, that’d be fine if you were willing to actually pay for the true cost of it instead of forcing society to subsidize your lifestyle!
But then they cant just afford it with a single working adult in the family like that was ever long term viable instead of a short period of specifically american history that was never gonna last because that’s just not possible without either completely rolling over the environment or other countries. The horror!
Not that there aren’t plenty of issues with the cost and time requirement of having a family, but my god this whining like life isnt worth living if you can’t buy a single family home is annoying me.