[excerpted from https://ggwash.org/view/81764/national-links-when-a-car-improves-your-life-its-a-public-policy-failure]

If we had better transit, I wouldn’t need this car: When buying a car cuts down travel times and opens access to more of a city, that is a failure of planners and leaders who could be making many more people’s lives better by providing more robust active transportation including transit. Baltimore-based writer Dharna Noor laments the improvements to her mobility that purchasing a car during the pandemic created because of poor policy and service. (Dharna Noor | Earther)

https://gizmodo.com/buying-a-car-improved-my-life-it-shouldnt-have-1847106068