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And what is a walk? Gödel lives an hour north and Einstein needs to pick up the kids from school. Traffic is pretty bad, no time to talk.

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But car dependency is definitely not the root cause…

Car dependency is a symptom. People aren't car dependent because they're addicted to cars, they're car dependent because where they live is super spread out.

Cars are a problem but forcefully excising them is both a political nonstarter and just makes life harder for everyone. People will choose to not own cars once it's feasible to do so.

And it can be argued people living very spread out is a symptom of something else.

Wealth?

Oh I fully agree. Car dependency was easier to type than all the stuff you said which is a fuller analysis.

Well the advent of (affordable) cars made the whole spread out urban design possible in the first place.

Whenever this comes up, I don't understand how a married couple of professionals are supposed to live biking distance to both employers.

That’s the part I didn’t understand either. You’re not. You can’t. Because that’s how the city was built. But if the city was built differently a married couple of professionals could get to work without a car.

There’s more to it than this. Check out the Not Just Bikes YouTube channel for the whole story

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