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The government can never do anything right. Unfortunately, many people still think that government is the solution to everything. Nothing makes me cringe more than “There should be a law.” Really? There are hundreds and thousands of pages of codes and regulations at the federal, state, and local levels. What have those solved? What have they done? Except make life more difficult, expensive, and complicated.
There is a long global history of incredible government failures. War, welfare, bankruptcy, taxation, inflation, violence—what harm have governments not done? If you want to destroy anything, hand it over to the government. It will make a complete mess of it in no time. The post office, DMV, courts, police, military, and roads are all the worst examples of inefficiency and corruption.
City, urban, and metropolitan life has many issues. But in modern times, no problem is worse than traffic. This, along with violence and crime, is the primary reason why people move out of cities as soon as they can. The only people living there are the ones who cannot afford to live in the suburbs and the country.
As usual, the government blames other factors for its faults: too many cars, employers hiring people from far-off neighborhoods, the distance between workplaces and homes, employers concentrating in cities, and people not using public transport and ride-sharing.
Yes, there are lots of cars. However, the population is increasing, and cars are still the most efficient way to move around in almost all places. Why did the government, responsible for traffic, not predict these needs with population growth trends? We do not see a shortage of food, clothing, homes, hospitals, businesses, and cars in the same rapidly growing populations. Why? Because companies have a profit motive. They predict the trends, plan for the demand trends, and have products available faster than the population growth.
On the other hand, the government has no incentive, motive, or accountability. It is counting on the failure to provide so that it can blame its laziness, incompetence, and inefficiency on the lack of funds and get more funding next year or find an excuse to tax more.
Yes, employers are hiring people from everywhere. Rapid technological growth makes finding and hiring employees far more complicated and technical. The workforce must be suitable for the rapidly advancing and complex skills and qualifications requirements, and you have to hire people to fulfill these workforce needs and requirements even from other parts of the world. There is no way that you may have all these diverse and skilled workers available near your business.
A business has to be situated in a location most suitable for employees, suppliers, distributors, retailers, and the housing and mobility of all these people. Again, city locations are usually ideal for these purposes, whether you like it or not.
Also, employees want to be as close as possible to the workplace, so they must live in cities. Although the cost of living is higher in cities, employees generally have to swallow this pill because having a job with a higher cost of living is better than having no job at a lower price.
Public transport in most cities is pathetic. It is sparsely available, slow, has low accessibility, is expensive, and even dangerous. Your car, on the other hand, is readily available, faster, cheaper than public transport, and more comfortable.
Ride-sharing is even more cumbersome than public transport, especially for people who do not have 9-5 jobs. Ride-sharing services are even worse than public school buses because the commute becomes painfully long.
The city populations mostly grew by highly predictable trends. So, why did the government not keep up pace with it? The lack of funding cannot be an excuse here because governments charge incredible amounts in various taxes related to car and vehicle ownership. Gas tax, car tax, car sales tax, driving license fee, tolls, fines, etc. The government is all over you once you have committed the crime of buying a home or a car or having an income. The answers to this question are the usual, obvious, and straightforward. Roads did and cannot keep up with population growth because the government is corrupt, inefficient, and not accountable at all.
Even whatever the roads are available are extremely dangerous. About 50 thousand people die every year in car accidents. Again, the government blames other factors like speeding, drunk driving, driving under the influence, texting while driving, human errors, etc., and refuses to take any responsibility related to its monopoly on roads.
Regardless of the excuses, the fact is that outcomes are 100% the responsibility of the provider, especially if it is a coercive monopoly. Excuses cannot take away the commitment from the government logically, ethically, and morally. People die, get injured, get late to work, lose wages, get frustrated, and even get involved in road rage because the product sucks so much.
The worst aspect is that, for the most part, you cannot even sue the government. A cop issues a ticket, blaming a driver or someone else, leaving you and your insurance company to deal with it. Because the roads are so risky, you must also pay high insurance premiums and deductibles.
Trust me; the situation is not as bad as it might have been if car manufacturers had not invented and improved revolutionary safety technologies like hydraulic brakes, snow tires, safety belts, cruise, proximity alarms, rearview mirrors, cameras, etc. Extremely safe self-driving cars are also almost ready to be rolled out, but the government is again in the way. It does not want to give up this highly lucrative monopoly. So, as usual, corporate media has joined the government in the fear-mongering campaign, but the fact is that almost all the accidents on roads happen due to human error, and self-driving cars take that entirely out of the picture. But they will also make all the vast traffic-related government apparatus outdated—no more need for traffic police, layers, courts, DLs, DMV, etc. A considerable tax base for the state and local governments will be gone.
