Politico
I see you stopped at the first sentence and decided to make your comment. Rural townships (as well as metros and any other city state) need to incorporate buses and light rail to improve their towns. And start to re-plan around transit, bikes, and walkability.
As for only the ultra wealthy owning cars, I don’t even want them to own cars. Ideally, I would hope cars are so regulated and so heavily taxed, that the only way for anyone to drive them in the future is on a closed track, like how race cars are now.
Humans are terrible drivers. Cars are bad for everyone. And decades of propaganda from car companies have made it where we have an insane culture thinking that somehow cars are the ultimate independence, when it’s actually a self-inflicted trapping.
We need to be free of cars.
I didn’t stop at the first line. None of your suggestions encompasses truly rural areas, which is a large amount of the land area of the US. Take a trip out of your metro area some time.
You think I haven’t?
You also realize the vast majority of people don’t live in rural areas, right?
Land doesn’t ride in cars.
Additionally, a train center can be built in a rural area (or can use Amtrak / freight trail that’s already there), to then be used by regional trains.
Like, the options aren’t just a possibility, they’re already here!
Sounds more like you think cars are the superior form of transit, and I can’t dissuade you from thinking that, even tho it’s entirely wrong.
I’d like to again suggest you leave your metro area. It sounds like you have no idea of the scale of rural America.
