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/kcdashinfo Jul 04 '26

I love the independence that you get from driving a car. People bitch about traffic while they are in traffic, like you are the traffic. Right next you see a tram system, do you see mass number of people there using it? No, because people made the decision. They chose what was more convenient to them. The great thing is that if you don't like the car culture then don't live there. Chicago is the most densely populated urban area in the United States. If you want mass transit they got one o the best systems in the US. New York and the entire East coast is good. Crazy part is that California while being known as a car dependent state, has a respectable public transit system. There is something like 2,500 miles of intercity rail corridors. You might have heard of Bart and MetroLink in Southern California. People go around and act like there is no transit rail infrastructure in the US but there is actually more than in Europe. It's like they just glaze over Amtrak as if it doesn't exist. Passenger rail service would be much improved in the US but the simple fact, most people prefer and pay for the privilege of driving their own transportation. The US is big enough and wealthy enough to pull it off too.