The traditional suburban street design of winding roads and cul-de-sacs is just as responsible for U.S. car dependency as the distances created by sprawl, according to new Yale research.

freeman@feddit.org · 4 days ago

The traditional suburban street design of winding roads and cul-de-sacs is just as responsible for U.S. car dependency as the distances created by sprawl, according to new Yale research.

stoy@lemmy.zip · 3 days ago

The problem with the US is that they have too much land, they waste it building insane suburban hellscapes.

A normal European suburb is usually built around public transport first, you have local bus stops connecting to suburban centers where larger busses on express routes or local commuter trains provide a fast and convenient access to cities and jobs.

freeman@feddit.org · 3 days ago

I find it amusing that you assume the available land has to do with it, but then in your explaination you dont even mention the lesser availability of land in Europe.

stoy@lemmy.zip · 3 days ago

Eh, in the US land is cheap, companies buy it, build cheap houses a and sell for profit, built with limited thought on how it actually integrates with other communities, thus creating isolated islands of communities where the only logical transport is a car.

Here we have less land available and communities are planned with more focus on integration with other parts of the community.

The traditional suburban street design of winding roads and cul-de-sacs is just as responsible for U.S. car dependency as the distances created by sprawl, according to new Yale research.

The traditional suburban street design of winding roads and cul-de-sacs is just as responsible for U.S. car dependency as the distances created by sprawl, according to new Yale research.

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