Oh hey, also the same thing with environmental issues

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    But to take it a bit further, high capacity public infrastructure can go a long way towards improving the lives of low income working people.

    Trains, buses, and subways can eliminate the need to own and maintain a car.

    The real problem is zoning. If the density is high enough (and mixed-use enough), people can just fucking walk places whether you’ve got public transit or not!

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      Even in areas where we have zoned for dense real estate, we’ve built these four lane boulevards with barely a crosswalk between them.

      At some level, we could use a little zoning. Pedestrianization isn’t going to happen via the free market.