For our health and happiness we should be radically pedestrianizing the entire country. Instead we'll make it illegal to walk along busy roads because billionaires don't want to share space with other humans on the way to the airport.
I don't strictly mean "closing areas off to cars," I mean places everywhere where people live and work and shop should be designed so it's pleasant and safe to walk around. This doesn't require density. It can be done without demanding the exurbs become Brooklyn.
Instead we'll make a choice to design places to accommodate driverless cars that only work correctly if they never encounter children crossing a street
I think about this video a lot!
