Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US
I live in a master planned community (Daybreak, Utah), and while you can definitely scoff at the building quality (state of things everywhere right now, it&#x27;s all done fast and with low quality materials), it&#x27;s been fantastic, especially during the pandemic.<p>The whole neighborhood is designed to be walkable, with parks, pools, trails, train stations, grocery stores and restaurants (added in the later phases, which are being developed right now) within 5 minutes of your doorstep.<p>It gets a bad rap from locals on the outside, but talk to the people living here (mostly expats from out of state) and nearly all of them say the same thing:<p>&gt; &quot;We love it here!&quot;<p>and<p>&gt; &quot;Why aren&#x27;t more communities built this way?&quot;<p>I will say though, the US is poorly equipped for bicycle commuting. Even our neighborhood doesn&#x27;t have many dedicated bike paths, opting instead to share the road with cars. Most diehard cyclists I know will tell you it&#x27;s a matter of &quot;when&quot; not &quot;if&quot; you have a scary encounter with a driver. And with the amount of gigantic trucks on the roads out here that people use as their commuter cars, you can imagine these encounters don&#x27;t typically end well.