Cars kill cities
This is probably going to sound foreign to many of you guys. After reading these comments, it almost seems like most people here are from the Bay Area, NYC, Chicago. So here i go...<p>Just because you live in a certain area where walking from A to B is possible or even preferred, doesn't mean the rest should/can follow. I live in Kansas City, a place where owning a vehicle isn't a convenience, but a necessity. My residential neighborhood doesn't have any sidewalks to  any convenience stores or main roads. I have to walk on a narrow two-way road, which is a tragedy waiting to happen. I simply cannot WALK anywhere. I could opt-in for public transport, which happens to be very inefficient because nobody uses it, and wait 40-50 minutes for a bus to arrive. The irritating thing is that I'd have to drive to the closest bus station. This scenario is pretty typical for most suburban neighborhoods in KC. I even tried biking at some point, but people here just don't understand it. They'll honk at you, flip you off, run you off the road or throw stuff at you.<p>Commuting by foot has never been popular here. Therefore, the city infrastructure never saw the need to support it and likely never will, unless people start mass-croaking from heart failure.  So, when someone start a BS rant about cars killing cities and the need to abolish personal transport, I immediately close the browser tab. You guys need a reality check.