Originally Posted by wroomwroomoops
Anyway, most of the USA has been designed to be dependant on cars. There has been public transportation companies in the past, that have been bought out by the car industry giants, and then shut down, to increase the sale of cars.
There is no reason for the USA to be so dependant on cars - take a look at Europe, even the sparsely populated areas of it, like northern Finland or Sweden. I am not completely against cars, I am against stupid misinformed parroting. Yes, the USA has been ****ed and now in most parts of that otherwise great country, living without a car is difficult to impossible. It shouldn't be like that - that's all I tried to say.
Europe has the advantage that most of its cities and communities were already built dense out of necessity. I agree there's a lot we can do to minimize use of cars in our urban areas, but it's an uphill battle in most places, and there are a lot of non-urban areas in this country with no other infrastructure so it doesn't really make sense to bulid a light rail 20 miles out to where a couple of guys live.