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The first ten times I read a headline like this, I thought it was just Americans being American, but then it started happening elsewhere too.
I do believe it has to do with the development of suburbs, which has to do with prioritizing car infrastructure over anything else.
I live in a small town, less than 20k people, and even here, the developers of the most recent suburbs have chosen not to have pedestrian sidewalks at all. They'd rather sell those square meters as building lots. It makes sense. Nobody is requesting a sidewalk to upkeep just so they can walk to their neighbor who they don't socialize with anyway. The kids from these places never even get to learn how to walk a street safely, because their parents insist on driving them everywhere for their safety.
The older suburbs were made in a different time when politicians had expectations of cities growing and developing over time to have their own centres and shops and what not, which would require facilitating traffic passing through and local accessibility. The modern ones do not. They know now that modern suburbs are dead end appendix streets that never develop because people drive to the strip malls instead of walking to a local store, so there's no reason for the municipality to require silly things like pavements, bike paths and playgrounds and such.
I do notice that more young people are currently choosing not to buy houses in those areas, but it is going to be difficult to fix the layout once it has already been made, because there really isn't room for improvement between the lots.
There is a lot that is not under control of the individual.
For work, I have to be in another city. I got a place that has a train stop at the end of the street. As soon as I started the new job, they fucking closed the downtown office so now I'm paying a premium to live near a train that I cannot take. I have to drive fucking 45 min through traffic because while there technically is a train that goes out to the exurban office, the stop is several miles away. Maybe I could walk or take a bike, but there are no sidewalks nor bike lanes out there. No bus. I could take an uber or something, but I'm going to pay for a train ride, spend the time on the train, then spend on an uber 2x a day. Winter is pretty nasty where I work, so even if I were brave enough to ride a bike down the road where cars are normally going 60mph, it'd be worthless for the winter.
Not everyone who drives to work wants to. I love living in town but now I never actually get to do much in town because I'm always out at that fucking worthless office out in the middle of nowhere and wasting time and money to get there.