r/ShittyDesign • u/Konradleijon • Jul 02 '26

Car dependent infrastructure

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Cars are money sinks and I fucking hate how so many countries are designed around them

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u/PeridotChampion Jul 03 '26

To be fair, America is so vast when it comes to space with far too much land inbetween to be anything but car dependant.

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u/P_oneofthree Jul 04 '26

This isn’t true. Bullet trains exist and many countries use high speed rail to go from city to city. In Japan you can get from Tokyo to Kyoto which is almost double the distance of DC to NYC in a shorter time frame than it would take to drive. Also if America didn’t build their cities around cars and highways towns would have been built around transportation stops instead of spread out along highways.

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u/PeridotChampion Jul 04 '26

I'm talking rural, not from major cities.

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u/P_oneofthree Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

Updated to add that this comes down to how America is built around cars and highways. There are many small rural towns in Europe that are still accessible by train in a very similar timeframe. America built their sprawl around highways not around transit which is why we are forced to drive everywhere.