On: The Immobile Masses: Why Traffic Is Awful and Publ...

[dkopi]

If you're able to walk for 95% of your needs, public transit, taxis, uber and zipcars solve the other 5%. If you're only able to walk for 5% of your needs, public transit isn't going to help you much.

Rent/Housing does indeed cost more in walk-able areas. That's a great signal telling us that there's a lot of demand for walk-able neighborhoods, and urban planning should allow a lot more of them.

[thatfrenchguy → dkopi]

Well going to work is probably 90% of your moving needs.

So if you live 45 minutes by train from where you're working and there is an actual train there, public transit helps you a lot.

[nostrebored → thatfrenchguy]

That's a woefully inaccurate representation of my life and the life of my friends. Do more things.