Part of the reason it's hard to convince people to move away from car dependence is that "not spending $1B on car crashes" shows up as a massive hit to GDP rather than a huge benefit to quality of life https://twitter.com/mateosfo/status/1251277118970839040

Genuinely curious how people imagine you got to work before ~1950 when car commuting really took off https://twitter.com/ZamundaTwice/status/1251329893603794945?s=19

The design of our cities to make it impossible to get from one place to another quickly and safely without a car happened entirely within my Dad's lifetime and people think it's just-the-way-things-are

Given that the cities and intact neighborhoods that were laid out before world war II and have good walkability and access to good pre-war mass transit are the most expensive and desirable in the country, yes. sure https://twitter.com/ZamundaTwice/status/1251331732395028480?s=19

Personally I think we can use modern technology to build better neighborhoods and cities today than Greenwich Village or Beacon Hill or San Francisco but the market has spoken and it says the way we did it in the 19th century is strictly superior even after 100 years of decay.