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> I wonder if all these sour grapes about cars will simmer down if a generation comes along that can more easily afford them again. In the UK you could afford
by cup-of-tea 8y ago
> I wonder if all these sour grapes about cars will simmer down if a generation comes along that can more easily afford them again.
In the UK you could afford a car on minimum wage. I have a car. I still don't think cities should be designed for cars. How can anyone look at one of those pictures of American five-lane highways of bumper-to-bumper traffic and think that is in any way sane?
- jimmaswell 8y agoI'm saying there are probably unexplored good solutions to that kind of congestion. Another I just thought of is the city motivating companies to make shifts not so centered around 9-5. Spread the rush with shifts of 8-4, 10-6, etc.
- wahern 8y agoThe 9-5 work schedule went away a long time ago. In places like the Bay Area rush hours are roughly 6-10AM in the morning and 3-7PM in the evening precisely because of differing schedules[1]. And that's for white collar work. Factories and service work have much more varied schedules. [1] There's a long tail, too. IME traffic becomes noticeably heavy around 6AM and 3PM, but there's a long tail after 10AM and 7PM.
- cup-of-tea 8y agoYep. In the UK on a weekday the M1 near London and M25 start to get busy after 04:00 and stay busy all day.
- HumanDrivenDev 8y ago> In the UK you could afford a car on minimum wage. Parent said easily afford, not afford.
- cup-of-tea 8y agoWhat does easily mean? Not even notice the extra expenditure on the car? When was that ever the case for most people? It's always been a big outgoing, second only to housing.