its interesting:

just imagine if there were no places to park a bicycle?

I love these kind of things. When I first starting reading Donald Shoup, every where I went I looked at the infrastructure differently.
about 5 years ago I starting going back down to Ventura, Ca and LA to help with my family. I looked at infrastructure with a cynical eye. Later I'd read about things like Federal Aid Highway Act: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal...ay_Act_of_1956

in SoCal, its just like the references point out, massive sprawl.
now being 43 years old, I'd think back to when I was about 8 to 14 years old, and I'd remember how my dad, as a union painter (housing tracts), made a minimum of $100/day when the house payment was $280/month.

i guess the point here, is that it really is amazing how federal monies can effect our lives.