alt Hacker NewsInteresting how both responses zoomed in on the one part of the comment that wasn't a problem for me and asserted that it was the problem.
Replace Costco with "some place I like to go" if that is less distracting.
Interesting how both responses zoomed in on the one part of the comment that wasn't a problem for me and asserted that it was the problem.
Replace Costco with "some place I like to go" if that is less distracting.
Well, it's very much a part of the problem.
The entire nature of commerce in much of the US is based around the automobile. You are expected to buy things in quantities that are best transported by a car. You are going to a place that is stocked by the truckload because it is placed near a road or highway.
The money is made because of the road network. That's why governments build highways and roads: to enable commerce that they then tax. It's more efficient for a lot of commercial purposes if you have commerce occur at the scale of a vehicle than it is if it occurs at the scale of a person.
If you want to go to a park or some other place "I like to go", sure, it's great to have those within walking distance, but that's not going to be enough to motivate political and economic will to scrap trillions of dollars in investment in infrastructure based on the automobile. It just isn't.