Cars create the illusion that we all operate alone. The world zips by while we sit in solitude. We don’t pass other people—we pass other cars. The car dehumanizes our neighbors and friends. The incentive to speed doubled by mechanical ease, anything that slows us down causes rage.
PT Klein
Not to mention, sprawl creates fascists. Who’s more likely to be aggrieved and vengeful? The guy who walks to the store and has a drink at the bar and chats with people, or the guy who sits in traffic all day and views other people as obstacles in his way?
TomTom
One thing I've not seen mentioned in redistricting discourse is the fact that California has built so little housing over the last two decades, we're on track to lose ~ 4 seats in the house anyway.
People really don't appreciate how deeply NIMBYs have fucked the United States.
