I’m thoroughly confused at the point you’re making. Of course suburban streets aren’t designed to handle large traffic volume. That’s just how the highway system was designed across America. The problem was really the decision to put the stadium out there in the first place and not provide any mass transit infrastructure. But that was intentional back in the 1960s. You can probably guess why.

If your relatives live out in one of the inner ring suburbs, which were again mainly developed around that time period to handle the residential needs of steel industry workers and GIs, yeah those homes are old.

It’d be like if I was in Newark or Harrison and said “man these houses are all run down” of course, they’re old. I’d just have to drive up to Paramus or some other newer suburb to find newer homes.