I’m not the person you’re replying to, but I’m a fuckcars enthusiast.
Personally, I don’t think cars should be banned nationally, but they should be banned in urban areas. Require people to park on the outskirts or a satellite city and take the train or bus. This includes the main street in my small town. Cars are mostly fine on rural distribution roads where they don’t interact too much with people, but in any area with sufficient density, cars quickly become dangerous, and roads become disruptive.
Banning them now would be disastrous for the poor.
Cars are disastrous for the poor in the US as well. Many poor people don’t have reliable access to cars, and when you don’t have a car in a car-dependent city, everything becomes more complicated. Often public transportation is completely overlooked because it’s assumed that everyone drives. Because of this assumption, we enforce parking minimums that all but require driving.
Not letting corrupt auto industry barons kill alternative transport would have been the play, but that horse has sailed.
Alternative transport can be (re)built. We would have rebuilt it several times over without the corruption anyway, it’s not like we’d still be using the steam locomotives that built America today.
I’m not the person you’re replying to, but I’m a fuckcars enthusiast.
Personally, I don’t think cars should be banned nationally, but they should be banned in urban areas. Require people to park on the outskirts or a satellite city and take the train or bus. This includes the main street in my small town. Cars are mostly fine on rural distribution roads where they don’t interact too much with people, but in any area with sufficient density, cars quickly become dangerous, and roads become disruptive.
Cars are disastrous for the poor in the US as well. Many poor people don’t have reliable access to cars, and when you don’t have a car in a car-dependent city, everything becomes more complicated. Often public transportation is completely overlooked because it’s assumed that everyone drives. Because of this assumption, we enforce parking minimums that all but require driving.
Alternative transport can be (re)built. We would have rebuilt it several times over without the corruption anyway, it’s not like we’d still be using the steam locomotives that built America today.