• Uranium3006@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    only because it’s artificially constructed to be like that for the benefit of the car-oil industrial complex

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        1 year ago

        specifically, in this case, euclidean zoning, FAR limits, skewed investment, unsafe intersections, oil subsidies, etc.

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      No, the roads were constructed so that people could travel from one place to another more easily. They existed before cars did, and people traveled on these old roads with horses and carriages. Many of the roads around where I live (in an area the government designates as rural) have historical markers that describe their history going back to the days of Colonial times.