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I think the idea is to penalize car ownership in places where you "shouldn't" need one. If you're courageous, you could live in downtown Dallas without a car (

by rtpg 9y ago

I think the idea is to penalize car ownership in places where you "shouldn't" need one. If you're courageous, you could live in downtown Dallas without a car (can move around a bit with DART). Making it harder to own a car (combined with more "dense-city" developments) doesn't seem like the worst idea. Mainly because we could recover the huuuge parking lots. And when you want to go to Austin for the weekend you can rent a car. In any case, even if the entire state is still very much "car necessary", you can still try to incentivise pockets of the state to be less so.

kolinko 9y ago
In this spirit, some European cities have car-free zones, and narrow their inner streets.
FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
If your goal is to have an significant impact on climate change, you'd more bang for your buck and just as likely a chance of banning red meat, especially with electric car ownership on the rise. I've commuted by bike and public transportation for a number of years and I'd never want to ban vehicle ownership. A more workable solution would be to make driving tests less of a joke or to make dense areas of city centers car free zones. American cities are just too large and often times people drive without a destination in mind, like my Sunday drives down the California Public Highway along the beach.
exprA 9y ago
I wonder which has a bigger impact on human consumption levels: a person that decides to save his time by driving a car instead of waiting for a bus, or Africa's population increasing from 250 million in 1960 to about 5 billion by 2100. Let's focus on the selfish car guy, that's the big picture all right in “saving” the world.
- rtpg 9y ago
  Pour que no los dos? The "selfish car guy" is why the American lifestyle consumes twice as much as the Japanese lifestyle. Everything gets built around it. And of course there's the fact that the American lifestyle gets exported to other places as well.

by rtpg 9y ago

kolinko 9y ago

In this spirit, some European cities have car-free zones, and narrow their inner streets.

FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago

If your goal is to have an significant impact on climate change, you'd more bang for your buck and just as likely a chance of banning red meat, especially with electric car ownership on the rise. I've commuted by bike and public transportation for a number of years and I'd never want to ban vehicle ownership. A more workable solution would be to make driving tests less of a joke or to make dense areas of city centers car free zones. American cities are just too large and often times people drive without a destination in mind, like my Sunday drives down the California Public Highway along the beach.

exprA 9y ago

I wonder which has a bigger impact on human consumption levels: a person that decides to save his time by driving a car instead of waiting for a bus, or Africa's population increasing from 250 million in 1960 to about 5 billion by 2100. Let's focus on the selfish car guy, that's the big picture all right in “saving” the world.

rtpg 9y ago
Pour que no los dos? The "selfish car guy" is why the American lifestyle consumes twice as much as the Japanese lifestyle. Everything gets built around it. And of course there's the fact that the American lifestyle gets exported to other places as well.