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If we could reduce car infrastructure to the point where only people who need a car for the transportation to be accessible would use it that would be a dream.
by arrrg 4y ago
If we could reduce car infrastructure to the point where only people who need a car for the transportation to be accessible would use it that would be a dream.
I don’t get the accessibility angle at all. It’s a non-issue because you will have a very hard time finding people who have issues with exceptions for accessibility. That would still reduce the need for car infrastructure massively.
The thing is, we need to start building the future right now, right here and massively. That means public transportation centric development (= building public transport to nowhere and letting the area develop alongside the walksheds with appropriate mixed use zoning) and actually being brave enough to re-structure existing solutions along those lines. That all isn’t magic, we just need to do it. We know it works, it doesn’t require any technological breakthroughs.
- chitowneats 4y agoDoes it? For a time, perhaps. China's high speed rail network, built largely in the way you describe, is nearly a trillion dollars in debt. https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Caixin/China-looks-to-slow-growth-of-struggling-high-speed-rail https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Caixin/China-looks-to-slow...