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Do you have any examples of "livable cities"? People often point to Europe, but having lived in 3 different European cities (London, Zurich, Ljubljana) all of t
by tomp 5y ago
Do you have any examples of "livable cities"? People often point to Europe, but having lived in 3 different European cities (London, Zurich, Ljubljana) all of them are much better with a car (especially with a family - imagine shopping a weeks of groceries by bike!) (with the possible exception of London Zone 1 but well you use taxis "outsourced cars").
- arcticbull 5y agoIf your issue is groceries and packages, why not simply lean on services that deliver groceries and supples by truck? Instacart and Amazon? And then you don't really need a personal car right? [edit] Hong Kong is a great example.
- tomp 5y agoI fail to see how an Instacart driver driving a car is any more eco friendly than me driving a car. (Operationally… maybe less cars means less resource usage, but that’s not the biggest contribution to climate change… and there are other positives of owning your own car, e.g. trips)
- arcticbull 5y agoShould be significantly more efficient to have 1 truck load up and provide groceries and packages to everyone on a road than say 50 cars right? Further you don't need to own a car to go on trips, car shares solve that! Just rent a car for the weekend when you want to leave town, or take a train.