>>3730414>>3730407Without cars, we would be back to company towns and villages where people can only live in company owned housing provided for the workers of the company.
Sure, there's public transportation, but that carries the same problem. You can only find convenient access to work next to the public transportation stops, which means absolutely everyone wants to live there, which means the rents and land prices will skyrocket. Plus, the trains and buses will always be packed full a'la Japan where they need to employ pushers to cram people in.
And, the same issues apply to the other side of the equation. Businesses that provide work can't find employees outside of the areas where the bus stops, so they all have to set up shop in the same neighborhoods, which causes land prices and rents to go up and the cost of doing business translates into higher prices.
