They could go back to neighborhood schools so kids can walk to school instead of getting up two hours early to drive to the other side of the city.
Never happen, makes waaay too much sense, sorry.
That is so true. These soulless suburbs have no central gathering place, and people are isolated from one another. Every new development of a given size should have a mandated village hub developed with it, with a shared auditorium, some sports lots and a daycare-nursery-kindergarten, a 1-5 school and a 6-8 school, with two or three communities sharing a high school In the hub there should be an utility building with a recycling drop-off and storage for the community groundskeepers' tools; a single police officer with a desk and car; a drive-thru limited post office/package receiver; a very limited convenience store (break, milk, eggs, water, toilet paper, canned soup, first aid and no snacks); and a guardhouse concierge with local info who can schedule group amenities like a weekly pick up of several orders from Home Depot or dry cleaners, a community garden plot, and a transportation depot for hired vehicles or public buses.
We have a hub with many of these things, but the developer made the proportion of housing-to-hub three or four times too large and out of scale. He charged exorbitant rents for the strip mall—now half the stores either sit empty or the greedy devloper gets desperate and finally lowers the rent for the first downscale vendor who comes around, like a foreign-language nail salon that soon becomes a drug depot. The hub is surrounded by steep hills and isn't easily walkable, even with a portable grocery cart. And of course, the Democrats immediately screamed for low-income housing to be crammed into the villages, busing in low-income children and shoving Section 8's into any rentals, so the grand plan of the 90s went downhill within a decade; and now most of these ideas of living with shared amenities among people of similar means and lifestyles have become effectively illegal, i.e. "discriminatory."
The globalists' transformed USA no longer has freedom of association; and smallholder who excels financially—but not quite enough—will be punished by having to support welfare and immigrant hordes. Therefore the vice-president class moves farther out with bigger grounds around their McMansions, necessitating the commute, time stress, obesity and pollution. So weaponized PC has really killed walkability all over the country. Even the local grocery doesn't hire local people -- everything is done in the abstract, online, so workers criss-cross commute from distances. 'Tisn't green.