Originally Posted by
Dave Cutter
No. If you open a restaurant and do a great job... you may need to expand to seat all the people who desire to eat there. You might even need to open a 2nd location. That is called "growth"... NEVER is that called sprawl.
What relevance does the expansion of a restaurant have in the matter of sprawl in the geography of a municipality, county, or other economic area?
Originally Posted by
Mobile 155
There are a lot of options to cars being used everyday by people in the forum alone. Rail, bus, subway, walking, taxi, shuttle and for this forum bicycles. The fact that people have decided not to use those options doesn't mean they aren't there. The only difference between now and how it used to be is the time it takes to travel. If people simply lived and worked and died where they were born everyone would still live in the Fertile Crescent. The Romans would never have invaded England, the US would never have been established. The coastal natives would have never traded sea shells with the Zuni in New Mexico or have feathers from Mexico.
People have always been on the move and have always been looking for an easier way to do so. If not the car would never have caught on.
People have always worked hard to get a lot done and looked for ways to pep up and work more. If not amphetamines would never have caught on. Does that mean it's good to rely on amphetamines to get all your work done or for employers to expect people to work 16+ hour days?