Cities can be easy/fast to drive cars through or they can be safe/pleasant to be in but they absolutely cannot be both at the same time

Words of wisdom

Read earlier that Scottsdale and Tucson AZ both are in the Top 10 most dangerous American cities in which to drive.

They can be neither, too. 😕

Just got back from Japan. Hate North American car culture even more now after seeing a modern transit network and walkable neighborhoods. :/

Ah, I see you've been visiting Hamilton! (jk you could be talking about any north american city)

Skill based matchmaking, one city gets to enjoy peace and safe commuting, whereas the other people are making roadkill speedruns out of their own neighbours

Robert Moses was literally Satan incarnate

I really wish the US had gone with the European idea of driving *around* cities instead of destroying mostly Black neighborhoods so our highways would go *through* cities. Especially when decades later we often build bypass highways around cities.

If cities become easy/fast to drive in, induced demand will make it difficult and slow to drive in within a few years. Both goals are achievable if public transit and walking/biking infrastructure remains superior to driving, then those who still want to drive will be even more comfortable: win/win

Milton Keynes in England has (or had) the reputation of being both -- planned from the start though