[foxyv]

Cars should be the exception rather than the rule. We have spent so long catering to them that we have ruined our downtowns and public transit systems. We have diverted funding that should have been spent on transportation for everyone to individual transportation. This has left North American elderly, disabled, and youth trapped and unable to move around our hostile and ugly cities.

A farm truck or tractor makes a lot of sense in the middle of a farming community to do work. The same truck or tractor in an urban downtown will kill children and crowd out transit.

[azinman2]

This all maybe true, but how do you undo the actual placement of where people live? That’s kind of step one…

[foxyv]

1. Start by eliminating R1 zoning. You want to build a 4 unit apartment in that residential neighborhood. GREAT!

2. Remove parking minimums. https://www.strongtowns.org/parking

3. Allow mixed use in neighborhoods. Japan is really great at this. Allow families to turn garages into small bodegas. Allow small businesses to flourish by not forcing them into isolated strip malls surrounded by pedestrian hostile parking lots. https://www.archdaily.com/search/projects/categories/mixed-u...

4. Narrow roads and eliminate on-street parking to create additional pedestrian and cycle infrastructure.

And so on... There are hundreds of plans that are extremely well thought out and just need to be implemented.