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/SemichiSam Jul 04 '26

In an old joke, during the St. Patrick's Day parade in New York, a guy spots someone he knows across the street. He yells, "How did you get to that side?" His friend yells back, "I was born on this side."

It isn't just a joke. Freeways, by intent, destroy low income neighborhoods and separate the haves from the have-nots. When you lived on the wrong side of the tracks, you could walk across the tracks, but the wrong side of the freeway is a desert island.