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Originally Posted by Sucre
American cities are different. You can't go anywhere without a car. In Europe, cities were built in a time when people were walking short distances. If you live in the city center, you do not need a car - everything, from coffee house, baker to post office, is close - If you want to travel a longer distance, public transportation are good and fast. Cars are more a burden than a support, they stink, they are noisy, they are dirty.
It has nothing to do with "love". Practicability makes law.
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Sucre in fact this is not true. There are plenty of people for example that live in downtown Chicago and do not even own a car. There are also plenty of suburbinites that take the Metra into Chicago to go to work each day. A lot of our big cities have PT systems, although not as well developed as Europes but that is changing.
Yes we do have a love affair with our cars. I personally would prefer to drive somewhere as opposed to having to rely on PT, but that doesn't mean when it makes sense to use PT I won't.