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Today’s feature from @WaPo on the future of public transportation after #covid19 raises important issues for everyone in society. I live in Downtown Dallas and don’t own a car. (Big thanks to @DART for saving me from a car payment!) #mydtd
Owning a car expensive for individuals—and for society. Which is is a larger drain on public resources: Paved 4-6 lane highways everywhere with 3-ton vehicles hurling into stop and go traffic OR two train tracks with trains that run every 7-15 minutes and a bus for the last mile?
Then there’s livability. My wife is a landscape architect, and we’ve talked for hours about why the biggest mistake of the 20th century was building cities for cars. Unless you have the means to (and prefer to) live in your own private compound, roads create distance...
