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What do people do who have to commute to the city for work? What do you do when you have to buy a few boxes of beer for a party that are too heavy to carry? H

What do people do who have to commute to the city for work? What do you do when you have to buy a few boxes of beer for a party that are too heavy to carry? How do emergency services work?

eloycoto 8y ago
1) There are a few types: - Working in the city center --> Walking mainly. - Working outside of the city --> Cars/bus The city that has banned the cars is the city centre, but is a round island, so in 10-25 min walk, there are parking slots, where you can drive from. 2) Shopping trolley, instead of buying a lot one day, you ended that each day you pick up a few things. (And this is great, 15 min day walking) 3) All the emergency services can go to the city centre, so cars are banned, but if you have an event or emergency cars can get into, here is the common sense rule. And there is a benefit here, kids are in the street, and due a lot of kids in the street, that moves the street from unsafe, to full of #know people, that make things super safe.
- yAnonymous 8y ago
  Thanks. I suppose the common sense rule also applies if you buy furniture or move in or out of an apartment.
  - eloycoto 8y ago
    Yes!
    - TheCoelacanth 8y ago
      How about more frequent deliveries like stores or restaurants that need to get deliveries every few days?
      - eloycoto 8y ago
        already reply in another thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18015103 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18015103
archi42 8y ago
I recently saw a delivery service for that kind of stuff (kind of "Bier Taxi") using small electric vehicles in our 180k city. Scaling this to a "local grocery mail order service" could be a nice business model for a car-free city: Supporting local businesses AND avoiding having to carry 5 crates of beverages for the next party. I think Rewe (a supermarket chain) is doing something like this in (parts of) Germany; but I believe they use gas-driven cars. Is there something like that in your city?

What do people do who have to commute to the city for work? What do you do when you have to buy a few boxes of beer for a party that are too heavy to carry? How do emergency services work?

eloycoto 8y ago

1) There are a few types: - Working in the city center --> Walking mainly. - Working outside of the city --> Cars/bus The city that has banned the cars is the city centre, but is a round island, so in 10-25 min walk, there are parking slots, where you can drive from. 2) Shopping trolley, instead of buying a lot one day, you ended that each day you pick up a few things. (And this is great, 15 min day walking) 3) All the emergency services can go to the city centre, so cars are banned, but if you have an event or emergency cars can get into, here is the common sense rule. And there is a benefit here, kids are in the street, and due a lot of kids in the street, that moves the street from unsafe, to full of #know people, that make things super safe.

yAnonymous 8y ago
Thanks. I suppose the common sense rule also applies if you buy furniture or move in or out of an apartment.
- eloycoto 8y ago
  Yes!
  - TheCoelacanth 8y ago
    How about more frequent deliveries like stores or restaurants that need to get deliveries every few days?
    - eloycoto 8y ago
      already reply in another thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18015103 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18015103

archi42 8y ago

I recently saw a delivery service for that kind of stuff (kind of "Bier Taxi") using small electric vehicles in our 180k city. Scaling this to a "local grocery mail order service" could be a nice business model for a car-free city: Supporting local businesses AND avoiding having to carry 5 crates of beverages for the next party. I think Rewe (a supermarket chain) is doing something like this in (parts of) Germany; but I believe they use gas-driven cars. Is there something like that in your city?