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Would you give up your parking for a lower rent?
"When given the choice between stable housing and very limited mobility versus unstable or delayed housing but near-unlimited mobility, some low-income families will opt for the latter just to keep their cars. Or they’ll give them up begrudgingly or try to sneakily own a car and park it somewhere on the street. This isn’t in a rural fringe; it is East Oakland. A dense, urban suburb"
https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/why-transit-in-oakland-sucks
@benfulton Poorer people in urban neighborhoods are also traveling during off-hours where walking substantial distances or taking public transit may simply be unsafe. There's also the American truth that you can live in your car, but you can't drive your house.
In fact, large stretches of NYC's outer boroughs are as car-dependent as most suburbs. The US is a very long way from providing reasonable alternatives to driving.
@Patrickoldhiker "You can live in your car, but you can't drive your house." 
That's clever, I'd not heard it before!
@benfulton I assumed that that adage would be familiar to people dealing with issues of urbanism or transit in the US. 
@Patrickoldhiker Probably just shows how uneducated I am 
️ @benfulton since capitalism sets up the world as a series of prisoners' dilemmas, no wonder everyone shoots themselves in the foot.
That post you linked to points to, but needs to emphasize the big problem: Alameda county is Oakland and a bunch of suburbs that hate Oakland and any county-wide transit system will optimize to punish Oakland because that's what everyone in Livermore and Fremont crave.