I want that booty <| sep |> And what is this american way of planning that you speak of ? There ' s no such thing . The whole point of planning is to design a city to meet the needs of the people , not fit some preconcieved notion of ' Murica , fuck yeah . Cars are one of the least efficient ways of getting places . It ' s used so often and it ' s currently more efficient because that ' s the infrastructure that ' s been in place for decades , and it ' s what the government has spent money on . People are used to it . Just because that ' s how things have been doesn ' t make it efficient by any means . No one is saying cars should be eliminated . Cars will always be an important part of transportation the only thing that most planners want to fix is vast difference in funding between roads and between other forms of transportation . There ' s a very big reason why people don ' t take public transit , and it isn ' t just because of culture or convenience it ' s because when you put in a shit system Like what they have in LA then no one would want to take it . If the government spends even half of what they do for roads on public transit , then you will see the difference .