I feel like any brand new city designed with cars in mind would be irresponsible. Walkable would be the goal.
It would depend on how you do it, but part of my suggestion is that we’re trying different things to see what actually happens. Science, Baby!
I’m thinking a fleet of electric, self-driving cars that can be called on demand when you need it. Owned by the city, but available to all citizens. Would this allow greater flexibility vs. a full-scale transit system? You could still have walkable neighborhoods, but use such cars for longer-distance travel, or if you have a lot of stuff to transport.
If I were to do this, part of the point would explicitly to do research into how people actually use such things, and what impact that has on their lives, the economy, the environment, and everything.
Of course, this is way too socialist for Trump Towns, but a man can dream, can’t he?
We did this 50 years ago.
And before that:
But as far as building new cities in undeveloped places out west, those have been proposed over and over again with nothing happening. There’s a reason those places are undeveloped and some pie-in-the-sky (or flying-car-in-the-sky) idealist is not going to change that.
Well, one part is easy. There can be only one name for the first Trump city.
Fraud-in-the-desert?
I was thinking either Trumpistan or St. Donaldsberg.
Covfefe!
C’mon, everyone, I don’t want this knocked out of P&E.
I don’t understand how PAB can be a viable candidate. Biden beat him in 2020, and that was before the insurrection and his tax fraud not to mention the MaraLardo documents. Just overcharging the SS at his hotels would bring down anybody else. Then there are his deranged postings. All this should, in the real world, give his opponents unlimited ammo. I wish they’d use it and put this asshole in his place.
“Trumpville… Donaldopolis… Bigly City… PENCEBURG?!?!”
The real world changed in 2016. We are no longer on Earth-One, where that is a reasonable assumption.
Until somebody gets flying cars to roll coal, I think we’re safe.
A rebranded Dogville.
Yeah, it’s an interesting idea, but I can’t see any Republican, especially Donald Trump, following through and putting in the effort to make it actually work. Real cities have sewers, and potholes, and unemployment, and a few thousand other things that need to be managed by people who know what they’re doing.
I was at Disney World a few months ago. I went on the Carousel of Progress, and saw a model city. I like that retro-futurism, but there’s something frustrating about it, too. It’s easy to create a blueprint for a perfect city, if you just imagine all the problems away. Let Donald Trump try to build his utopia. The problems will start when the second person moves in.
“Ivanka, she’s got her own place. It’s a little bitty place.”
I’m glad I’m not the only one who got that reference 
Who knew building cities could be so complicated?
That’s par for the course so far as Trump is concerned. How many times in 2016 did you find yourself thinking something along the lines of, “This is it. This has got to sink Trump, right?” From mocking a disabled reporter to talking smack about McCain getting captured it seemed as though he could say anything and his supporters did not care. It’s why even now I can’t count him out and have to accept there’s a chance he could be the next president.
I’m afraid you’re right. Each new outrage and idiocy of his drives out the previous one, with a tipping point never reached, always receding into the future.
The real point is that his supporters love each outrage, and the more outrageous his statements, the better they’re received.
It’s not politics as an attempt to govern. It’s politics as a spectator sport version of pure unadulterated unabashed trolling.
Well, in fairness, I don’t think his “we should suspend the Constitution” went over great. I think there is a line.