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March 14, 2014, 06:38:50 PM

While we're on the subject of roads, one of the factors that make the US so much a heavier user of cars than the rest of the world (besides just being less densely populated) is government mandated zoning ordinances. In much of the world, people can simply live near where they work because things grew organically without regulation. In the UK, I lived a ten minute walk from work. I had a car but it was largely superfluous (the supermarket was a 20 minute walk). Even in New York City, it is not uncommon for people to not have cars.