This argument, always smugly asserted by folks with parking and cars, is always irritating to me.
The argument that lower income people don’t drive is particularly noxious. Car access is a determining factor for employment and access to upward motion. You can’t get better paying low/moderate skilled jobs without one.
The idyllic urban landscape is as much a fantasy as the suburban paradise. People ditched cities for a reason.
My grandparents lived the sustainable urban way in Queens. They couldn’t afford housing near transit so my grandmother pushed a folding shopping basket to the shopping street every other day. My grandfather had 90-120 minute commute involving at least 3 transfers via transit. It wasn’t fun, and having a car transformed their lives in many ways.
The argument that lower income people don’t drive is particularly noxious. Car access is a determining factor for employment and access to upward motion. You can’t get better paying low/moderate skilled jobs without one.
The idyllic urban landscape is as much a fantasy as the suburban paradise. People ditched cities for a reason.
My grandparents lived the sustainable urban way in Queens. They couldn’t afford housing near transit so my grandmother pushed a folding shopping basket to the shopping street every other day. My grandfather had 90-120 minute commute involving at least 3 transfers via transit. It wasn’t fun, and having a car transformed their lives in many ways.