Mindlessly repeating this fact does damage to the psychology of every single person that earnestly wishes that they didn't have to drive.
A huge fraction of people dislike driving.
Of course, lots of people have to get around, and most of them don't want to die accidentally, so the systemic pressure creating drivers is immense.
American road networks have been managed in a way that should be labeled criminal.
Urban renewal in the '50s and '60s was used to destroy ethnic neighborhoods for the emotional well-being of politically powerful white people.
The reason everyone drives today is because of the ethnic cleansing (via road networks) being conducted by white people in the '50s.
The roads are already devastatingly congested.
To act like American mobility networks are fair, or reasonable, or functional is something like gaslighting at a population level than anything else.
Mindlessly repeating this fact does damage to the psychology of every single person that earnestly wishes that they didn't have to drive.
A huge fraction of people dislike driving.
Of course, lots of people have to get around, and most of them don't want to die accidentally, so the systemic pressure creating drivers is immense.
American road networks have been managed in a way that should be labeled criminal.
Urban renewal in the '50s and '60s was used to destroy ethnic neighborhoods for the emotional well-being of politically powerful white people.
The reason everyone drives today is because of the ethnic cleansing (via road networks) being conducted by white people in the '50s.
The roads are already devastatingly congested.
To act like American mobility networks are fair, or reasonable, or functional is something like gaslighting at a population level than anything else.