“They haven’t yet taken that step to say, we’ve been wrong for the last century,” King told me. “Which I think is a critical thing that the cities have to do.”
Key point. This is a problem decades in the making and won’t be fixed overnight. The transition will be uncomfortable.
“There’s a lot of people who don’t like to accept the truth when it implicates them in the system,” King told me. “If parking is the problem, then I have to drive less. Maybe I’m the bad guy.”
This pattern affects much of humanity’s problems. People don’t want to admit they’re imperfect. Easier to deny the outside world than feel uncomfortable.
Key point. This is a problem decades in the making and won’t be fixed overnight. The transition will be uncomfortable.
Uncomfortable is an understatement, a century of car culture doesnt undo itself overnight.
If we’re lucky it’ll only take 2 generations for people’s habits and preferences to change, but that requires investing in infrastructure that may not get fully utilized for decades.
The solutions are there, but the people need to be swayed.
Bullshit. Watch car culture die the moment gasoline reaches 10 dollars per gallon. The US will start to treat distances the same way Europe does currently.
Key point. This is a problem decades in the making and won’t be fixed overnight. The transition will be uncomfortable.
This pattern affects much of humanity’s problems. People don’t want to admit they’re imperfect. Easier to deny the outside world than feel uncomfortable.
Uncomfortable is an understatement, a century of car culture doesnt undo itself overnight.
If we’re lucky it’ll only take 2 generations for people’s habits and preferences to change, but that requires investing in infrastructure that may not get fully utilized for decades.
The solutions are there, but the people need to be swayed.
Bullshit. Watch car culture die the moment gasoline reaches 10 dollars per gallon. The US will start to treat distances the same way Europe does currently.