@matrix
No way Brno is that small
@LukeAlmighty Well, yes it is, but it's more that DFW is just that big. It's probably 2/3 of Prague's vnitřní okruh.
@Mr_NutterButter @matrix
Yes, it's called efficiency.
While we build our houses tall, you are building your parking lots wide instead.
@Forestofenchantment @matrix @Mr_NutterButter
Cry about your gas prices, while I take my 2 minute walk to the work each morning. (4 minutes, when the traffic light decides to be difficult)
@gentoobro @LukeAlmighty @Mr_NutterButter some people say suburbs became popular so that people don't have to live around black people
A ridiculous theory. Blacks had been in cities all along before they started bulldozing them to build highways and parking, and cities with barely any blacks, like Seattle, were also bulldozed for parking. The bulldozing happened because Boomers and their parents all wanted to live in a cookie-cutter house with a yard and a picket fence but still have their high-paying city job. As they bulldozed more city to create highways and parking lots, even more people moved out of the city, exacerbating the problem.
It's geometric in nature. Suburb population grows by the square of the distance from the city while road capacity only grows linearly with lanes added. It's all a massive fool's errand, and traffic will only get worse as they build more and more roads, spreading things further and further apart.
More or less. American cities were bulldozed so that the Boomers and their parents could commute to a shitty rubber-stamped house in an HOA.
There are some amplifying factors, like mandatory setbacks, minimum parking requirements, density limits, and retarded zoning, but mostly it's "derp, gotta have lots of rOaDs so we can cooomute to our city jobs while pretending to be rural".
@LukeAlmighty @matrix that's just because of the boomers and their obsession with suburbs.
@LukeAlmighty @Mr_NutterButter True, however Fort Worth Dallas metro complex still has higher population density. There's just less of us
@matrix @LukeAlmighty Your cities are that small?