• Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    Downs-Thompson is inviolable.

    The simple truth that a lot of people don’t understand. Cars simply require too much space that you can never possibly meet all the latent demand for car trips within a city, as doing so would mean bulldozing the entire city in the process. The only way to meet latent demand for transit is via an array of vastly more space-efficient means, e.g., public transit, walking, and biking.

    • grue@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Cars simply require too much space that you can never possibly meet all the latent demand for car trips within a city, as doing so would mean bulldozing the entire city in the process.

      1970s Houston: “hold my beer”