HRM charter changes proposed to speed up housing builds

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Originally Posted by OliverD

Unless we can invent teleportation, I don't think we're getting rid of cars in any sort of foreseeable future.

As with almost every debate, the extremes can mostly be ignored. Anyone who is slightly pragmatic realizes that we can't just get rid of cars in our cities en masse – certainly not the way they are built in their current form.

Since WWII, we have prioritized car travel over every other mode of transportation and that has had massive consequences. Now the pendulum is swinging slightly the other way and a lot of people are taking that as a "war on cars" - never mind that on the whole, cars are still given the most space, the most funding for their infrastructure, etc. by several orders of magnitude.

The war is not on cars, but rather on car dependence. Cars can still exist but our transportation framework needs to acknowledge that they are not the only option, nor should they be. And if that means slight inconvenience for drivers, so be it. Transit users, pedestrians, and cyclists have put up with massive inconveniences for decades and I really don't see how anyone can argue that levelling the playing field a bit is a bad thing.

To my way of thinking, this is a well-rounded response and I can't disagree with it.

I think my comments in the post above also apply here, for the most part.