[sterlind]

it sounds like that'd work where you're from, probably because it's a tiny town. you can probably walk to restaurants, coffee shops, grocery stores and pharmacies, right? so you mostly need transit for commuting to the city, which is cake.

the suburbs are hell. everything's far. walking is dangerous and unpleasant. the city's sprawled, so everyone commutes to a diffuse cloud of points between the cities.

I hate living in the suburbs because I'm a wheelchair user, and walkable places are safer and more accessible. so I like your idea, I just think the burbs are beyond saving.

[tmcw]

I agree. My town has a certain saving grace: it’s really old. The initial town plan was made before cars, so it was, at one point, a sort of walkable place. It isn’t anymore because of redesigns that favor cars and incredible sprawl, but there are still some of those bones in there.

“Modern” car dependent suburbs are beyond saving. We should save the towns we can and resist this suburb-style development in and around cities.

[maccam94]

The suburbs were designed around car ownership and home ownership. They are often isolating and inefficient. We need to change our zoning system to allow for more mixed use, mixed density zones which can allow more affordable and transit-connected homes to be built.