[quote=CONCHO][quote=sdduuuude]instead of driving to see each other because asphalt and concrete are just too complex.[/quote]
Not too complex — too expensive.
Private industry is great at building toll roads. If our interstates and state roads had been built by private industry, they would all be toll roads because they’d have to be paid for. Would people still want to drive 45 minutes each way every day to and from work if they had to pay $30 for the privilege? I doubt it, so yeah, this would have had a huge effect on the structure of our towns and cities.[/quote]
I doubt it. People almost ubiquitously prefer more space to less (i.e. bigger lots cost more than smaller lots, houses with more sq. ft. cost more than houses with fewe sq. ft, etc.) and it is foolish to assume that developers and buyers would let the building of a road get in the way of getting out to the less expensive, more expansive land.
While I agree the transportation methods might be different than they are now, people wouldn’t crowd into the cities because the gov. isn’t building roads for them. It’s just the stuipidist thing I’ve ever heard.
