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The original was posted on /r/collapse by /u/yousorename on 2023-11-06 01:02:43.

This comes up a lot with the electric car debate, but has anyone ever done the math of what it would take and what the impact would be to make the US into a place that didn’t need cars? Concrete production is a carbon heavy process right?

No matter what, it would require mass relocation, massive infrastructure projects, or both, and that’s gotta have some kind of impact. I live in the suburbs, work from home and do almost everything local. My wife and I have probably put 20k miles total on 2 cars over the last 4 years. The driving we do can’t really be replaced with transit, and I’m sure that we’re not the only people out there like this.

I’m not saying people shouldn’t try, or make new places better, I just don’t know how to un-suburb the US, and it seems like an issue that is always distilled down to “Americans are dumb because they hate trains”. Would tons of new transit options be a net benefit after what goes into making and maintaining them?

Are we kinda just stuck?