{"id":145334,"date":"2017-01-13T03:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T09:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=145334"},"modified":"2017-01-13T03:02:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T09:02:05","slug":"reason-5-most-americans-dont-ride-transit-our-cities-arent-built-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=145334","title":{"rendered":"Reason #5 Most Americans Don\u2019t Ride Transit: Our Cities Aren\u2019t Built for It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ti.org\/antiplanner\/?p=12727\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Housing, jobs, and other destinations are so diffused throughout American urban areas that they don\u2019t generate the large numbers of people moving from one point to another that mass transit systems need to work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Urban and transit evolution parted ways in 1913, when Henry Ford built the first moving assembly line to make his Model Ts. Cheap cars were an obvious threat to transit, but a bigger threat was less visible: unlike steam-powered, belt-driven factories, moving assembly lines required lots of land, so factories moved to the suburbs. When the suburbs refused to be annexed to the cities, monocentric cities became <em>polycentric<\/em> urban areas.<\/p>\n<p>At least through the 1970s, urban planners and central city officials pretended their cities were still monocentric, and they wrote numerous downtown plans, urban renewal plans, transit plans, commuter-tax plans, and other plans designed to maintain the preeminence of downtown. The construction of the San Francisco BART and Washington Metro systems were among these plans, but were as doomed to fail as all the others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. Housing, jobs, and other destinations are so diffused throughout American urban areas that they don\u2019t generate the large numbers of people moving from one point to another that mass transit systems need to work. &#8230; Urban and transit evolution parted ways in 1913, when Henry Ford built the first moving assembly line to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dystopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145336,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145334\/revisions\/145336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}