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That just sounds like a band-aid solution, what is needed are walkable cities, and decent public transportation.

That just sounds like a huge change that will take a long time and a lot of money to do.

With all the discussion on HN about "technical debt" I wonder why the same sort of strategies to avoid technical debt aren't applied outside the domain of software engineering.

Sure, it's effort now to do the smarter-but-harder thing, but the payoff will be huge in a few decades. Sure beats having a police state that is precipitated by goody-two-shoes demanding video surveillance of nearly all public roads in the USA.

Probably because leaders have to get elected, and "we're going to work through this backlog" is far less exciting in general to "new features!"

Well, in the US, that means jobs, and we've got the money. Done right, it makes us worth more and won't even have a meaningful impact on the overall value of currency.

Well New York City is the epitome of a "walkable city" and also has "decent public transportation." Yet there's no shortage of either cars and drivers behind the wheel texting.

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