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Lol did you really just paste a quote from his personal website to boost him? As near as I can tell, he took that from a David Brooks column, not some kind of objective assessment. He's also explicitly called walkability an elitist luxury. He's a lover of suburban sprawl, very consciously.[/quote]

No snark, is walkability, as the kids say, a meme? Or some PR talking point pushed by high-rise developers? My kids are in extremely walkable college towns, they're in great shape...yet they and their friends still uber everywhere. My daughter has interned two summers in Manhattan and while she tried to ride the subway, she admits she finds it disgusting and she's been harassed by creepy men and homeless while on it. My kids are not spoiled rich brats, either.

Also, doesn't the walkability obsession / ban cars utopia block out seniors and the disabled? My parents dine out a lot but they're not dining out if they have to walk 5 blocks from car to the restaurant door. They're nearly 80 years old.[/quote]

"Comfortable and convenient to walk" does not mean "everyone must walk everywhere or get arrested" - as your college kids who pay to ride in Uber cars instead of making walkable trips on foot can attest.[/quote]

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