Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 6079247" data-attributes="member: 24302">80% of people live in metropolitan areas.  That's a big city or even not so big city and its surrounding suburbs.  A lot of those places don't have the severe rush hour traffic you find in the biggest cities.  And if you were king you'd take away all cars which means the 20% who live in small towns or rural areas are screwed.Who cares if you have more disposable cash if it takes you 1 to 2 hours to get to the restaurant you want to go to that would've taken 20 minutes by car and then you have to repeat that to get home?  You want to go to a Little League game?  Go to the mall?  Go to church?  We haven't begun to scratch the surface of how inconvenient public transit is.  It only makes sense in extremely high population centers like NYC.  Even then a lot of residents still want a car.</blockquote>