Public transportation is good here, which is the answer to most of your questions. > now that they've removed several roads in favour of mostly unused bike and

Public transportation is good here, which is the answer to most of your questions. > now that they've removed several roads in favour of mostly unused bike and bus lanes. Why don't you bike or take the bus, then? > If I lived in a city I'm not even sure how I would do my weekly family shop without access to a car. Before the pandemic, we did it entirely on bike. On the other hand, Dutch cities are designed differently, where markets are interspersed with the housing itself. In fact, we used to just walk to the supermarket about 200m away, but then a bigger version of that supermarket opened up 5 minutes bike ride away, so... Checkout is super-fast - shopping is so fast many people go every day, if only to get fresh bread. When I lived in New York, we would have one big shop once a week, it was such a chore. ---- In your world, we all drive cars and destroy our biosphere. Is that really what you want for your children?