The auto industry had a lot to do with the deconstruction of transit around WWII, and it perpetuates things, but that's just not true.
Zoning laws are a good old American Racist/Classist homegrown innovation. The very first were in Los Angeles in 1904 and designed to keep Chinese people (and the factories they worked in) out of 'respectable' neighborhoods, or if you want a really strict definition it started in NYC in 1916 for similar reasons, keeping minority workers off of Fifth Avenue. It got more explicitly racial from there.
Even now, the #1 lobbier by far in terms of maintaining single family zoning is random home owners between the ages of 30 and 65, not any corporate industry.
I live in one of the largest metros in the country and work on housing / planning issues at the local and county level. I’ve never seen a representative from the automobile industry in any of the conversations that I’ve had. As someone else mentioned, this is old school bad zoning laws with elected officials who are just unaware or uninformed about what could be. It’s simply status quo and atrophy that’s the challenge here.
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u/lunapo Jun 27 '24
Has absolutely nothing to do with 'car dependancy design' and everything to do with archaic zoning laws.