> “But don’t you want to? Doesn’t it feel like part of being a grown-up?”
Funny because driving age is 16 in most US states.
Not only it isn't part of being grown-up, it's not even required to be grown up to drive US.
Funny because driving age is 16 in most US states.
Not only it isn't part of being grown-up, it's not even required to be grown up to drive US.
This is simply not possible if you tried to rely on Metro and I'm hard pressed to think of any mass transit system in the US that could allow one to get away with this.
That is a combined failure of US city planners and US transit systems.
The fundamental mistake was that cities were decomposed into an interconnected system of districts separated by purpose. This wasn't an assumption that people would think to question -- it doesn't seem opinionated, it doesn't prescribe a way to plan, and it's 'obvious'. So naturally this way of looking at cities lead people to plan cities that fit the model. So we have districts separated by use that require transportation systems to go between. I don't think it's right to shoulder the blame on the transit systems because their existence is a band-aid fix for a severed corroded. The fact that a person needs a transit system at all to satisfy their daily needs is the problem.
However, modern city planning has undergone a revolution that throws out this old model. A new model where everything is intermixed and in close proximity is the new hotness in the industry. It's sometimes called mixed use but that's a small part of what really is a larger set of changes.
Overall I wouldn't fault city planners for such a non-obvious mistake that was made a long time ago and only lived on through the industries cultural memory.