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Obviously. I'm just saying- what are you supposed to do if you need insurance but no one will insure you and this is happening to huge numbers of people? I'm sure the Fuck Cars folks would tell us to just not drive. I live in a semi-rural subdivision down a country road from a four-lane highway, two miles from the nearest bus station. It was -16 this morning when I woke up.
For starters you are supposed to demand better transit. While expensive, there is no reason you can't get great transit to your sub division - and since it is great transit everyone could get rid of a car (not all cars: you keep the SUV to tow the boat!) and save money overall.
I believe the reason is in the first part of that sentence. Who's going to pay for it? We're not inside city limits. There's only a city bus. There isn't a county bus and there never has been.
You and your fellow citizens are. That's why it's called public transit. There should be a light rail for you that's accessible. Obviously there'll still be some commuting you have to figure out yourself but most of the world has figured out getting a train from suburbs to city.
How? No one is collecting funds.
Light rail going off a highway miles out of city limits, down a country road and into a subdivision?
My last job was 10 minutes by car even further away from the city than I am and the only access road was on the highway. Have fun with that.
That is a political problem. Those can be fixed. I don't know how, but they can be fixed.
If you don't know how, what makes you think anyone else does?