Neutron wrote:Funny how nobody even thinks to get rid of their car and live near work.
Its quite impractical for many i guess, they have been trapped in the suburbs, keeping up with the jonses SUVs and now they will be milked for all they are worth.
That's not as simple as you say..
Most people live far away from their jobs because of the rising house / land prices, specially in the areas where most jobs are concentrated.
Most people can't aford to pay $1M for 80 sq meters in downtown or at a 10 minutes walk from their jobs.
Also, even if they could, they might not want to, since these areas are mostly composed of huge buildings and no green space at all, whereas in suburbs for much less money they can have more space and comfort.
In general terms public transport is bad, and in most big cities, it's built upon a radial model.. So if you want to go from suburb A to suburb B you have to go to up to downtown, change train / bus / whatever and then go down to suburb B, taking an hour or so.. The same done with a car takes 15 minutes.
I've seen (and lived) this in many countries..
In addition, many big cities are in open war against cars because it's fashionable (and gives elector voices) to be "ecologist".. This generates an overload on the public transports in the suburbs, which don't get a penny from the "big city not wanting cars", and they become even worse than what they are. Second effect is that highways leading to the "big city" host huge traffic jams that pollute even more, because entering the "big city" is more difficult than before (and paradoxically, more people take the car because they preffer to be stuck in the traffic than taking the overcrowded / unreliable public transports).