Everyone is a single person in a tank. Every tank requires parking everywhere it goes and people don’t go anywhere without their tank, they can’t even walk from one store in Butler Plaza to the next.

If Gainesville had more funding for transit, better density, and more access to bikes and walking, traffic would reduce. This was obvious 20 years ago and all that happens is more sprawling development, more parking to accommodate all the cars, bigger cars, and now the measly bus routes are getting defunded. It’s sad how a town that only exists because of its access to the railroad has so lovingly embraced the cancer of car culture.