Push for transit, walkable communities growing across US
Over the past 5 years I&#x27;ve definitely drank the kool-aid around walkability and better public transit. In the last year I moved to the one fairly walkable part of my city (of course it&#x27;s the oldest part, this tends to be the case in most U.S. cities), and my quality of life has improved immensely. Feeling safe to walk around and go to restaurants, stores, parks without having to endlessly drive everywhere has been amazing for my mental and physical health. Plus I save money on gas and it&#x27;s better for the environment!<p>There&#x27;s so much more we need to do though, especially around larger-scale transport like passenger rail. In most of the US we only have slow amtrak lines that aren&#x27;t competitive in any way with airlines. I went to Spain and France a couple years back and got to ride metros, high-speed rail, etc. It&#x27;s insane how much we as Americans rely on overly-large, dangerous, gas-guzzling 50k personally owned (financed) machines to get us around in our daily life.