Why isn’t big business getting behind better development practices?
Atrios notes:
It costs a lot of money to own and operate a car. AAA pegs it at about 7 grand per year (.pdf). That’s close to $600 per month. Living in a place where you can reduce the number of cars per household provides significant savings. Minor changes to development patterns which would open up that up as an affordable possibility for more people would be a good thing.
Many people see owning a car as an inevitable expense. It isn’t.
It seems that large companies could have the muscle to demand that states and counties have integrated transportation plans which could get people to work without cars.
That would be like giving workers a $7,000 per year raise! (Or more likely, would allow employers to pay workers less.)
PS. this post is timed to appear while I am in my car making my 30 minute earth crushing drive home from work.
Win/win!