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Agreed, although for small communities, public transport doesn't always work. Coincidentally, the author's bio says he now lives in Seattle, which has truly aw
by guitarbill 8y ago
Agreed, although for small communities, public transport doesn't always work.
Coincidentally, the author's bio says he now lives in Seattle, which has truly awful traffic. They could have banned traffic in e.g. South Lake Union when it was being developed and didn't.
- llukas 8y agoWalking works for small communities (at least in Europe).
- Semaphor 8y agoUnless you want to go somewhere outside those communities
- village-idiot 8y agoEurope seems pretty happy with the train.
- mantas 8y agoBecause every village or even town has access to rail.. Yeah, right.
- Semaphor 8y agoDownvoted? A friend of mine lives in a small village (because they had a child on the way and needed a bigger, cheap place to live). The bus leaves two times a day, not at all on sunday and the next train station is 20 minutes by car.
- eigenstuff 8y agoI live in a small community in the rural American South, everything is too spread out to get anywhere quickly by walking. It's like a 7 minute drive to my post office. Lots of houses on my street living on pretty big parcels of land. I wish, though! I hate how dependent I am on my car for transportation.
- enriquto 8y ago> for small communities, public transport doesn't always work For very small towns, you can walk. For mid-size villages, you take the bike. For cities, there is a public transportation network. In exceptional circumstances you can take a cab or an uber. If you want a week-end in a remote site, you can easily rent a car. I see zero need of owning a car for the general population, and I have never had or needed one.
- guitarbill 8y agoIf you're lucky enough to be able to walk or cycle, great - I love living in places like that, and currently don't own a car. But I grew up in a small, isolated village (in Europe, as the other comment notes). When your bus ride to school (on public transport, not a school bus) takes 40mins+, walking or cycling just isn't practical. So please, rural communities have it hard enough already without presumption or condescension. A bit of empathy goes a long way, although I guess it's easier to just assume everyone lives a certain way.
- xbmcuser 8y agoUnless automated cars really become good enough the need for self owned cars will always be there. I live in Singapore which has a very good public transport system and it's extremely expensive to own and keep a car so most people use public transport and 30-40min or more Transit time to work and school is common. So your 40 min time school commute doesn't sound that bad to me.
- guitarbill 8y agoFair enough, I'm happy to turn this into a Monty Python sketch. Frequency also matters. For my particular route this was roughly once an hour during business hours, and nothing after 8pm. This is not so rare [0]. [0] not where I grew up, privacy, but comparable: https://www.cumbria.gov.uk/elibrary/Content/Internet/544/931/6586/6592/6635/42766165941.pdf?timestamp=4343992810 https://www.cumbria.gov.uk/elibrary/Content/Internet/544/931...
- ahoy 8y agoSurely a town with a population of 6000 an a city with a population of 2 million can have different rules and norms.