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[jeffbee]

> People in US suburbs frequently live several miles from their town center

It is not the responsibility of the citizens of the central city to accommodate suburban drivers.

[PaulHoule → jeffbee]

In that case all the retail will go out to the suburbs and they’ll lose the jobs and have to drive out to the suburbs to go shopping. Or just lose the jobs to AMZN warehouses even further away.

[jeffbee → PaulHoule]

That is clearly not inevitable which you can demonstrate to yourself by glancing around and pretty much any city on earth.

[dnadler → jeffbee]

Well, commutes into a central city is a bit of different beast, and many metros in the US have trains that service the suburbs.

Driving in and around the suburbs is what I was talking about.