>>1892205>What actually happens is the city can't afford to maintain the roads, so they don't, and you get dilapidated suburbs.Road quality and neighborhood quality are not really the same thing. There's some correlation but you can just as easily have some SHITTY neighborhoods with GREAT roads and some very desirable neighborhoods with roads that are falling apart.
The core of the argument is still wrong because most American cities (excepting most of the Sun Belt) were hemmed by boundaries prior to 1950 and weren't doing the expansion into the suburbs, nor maintaining them.