Costs of Sprawl: The Speed Burden (2014)
The opening statement of this piece about &quot;how much we&#x27;ve given up&quot; to accommodate cars in the US leaves me pretty cold. This isn&#x27;t Italy and we aren&#x27;t bound by how far we can travel by foot. The US still has huge swaths of undeveloped land. Drive from Kansas City to Denver sometime, it&#x27;s a mind-numbing exercise in endurance. Energy usage concerns (which are very real) not withstanding the actual physical footprint of all this infrastructure is a drop in the ocean. The US is huge.