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This question sounds weird to someone who only lived in bike and public transport friendly cities. Any 'factory area' I know has dedicated bike lanes to reach
by herbst 4y ago
This question sounds weird to someone who only lived in bike and public transport friendly cities.
Any 'factory area' I know has dedicated bike lanes to reach them, is usually connected to the train system and more often than not has busses directly from the city center as well. If there is a bigger car parking it's usually not close to the factory, but next to to a close train station.
Most 'factory areas' around here are not huge tho, but integrated into a smaller village or so. You usually have several eating and shopping options in walking distance. We usually don't build big single use zones anywhere.
- Glawen 4y agoYou don't realise how badly they are designed until you try to go there without your car. Maybe the train comes only twice in the morning, and twice in the afternoon. Maybe you have 1km of your ride that you must share with trucks on a busy road.
- jmrm 4y agoThat depends the place. I had to use public transport in an European city every morning for some years, and my bus route had a bus every 5 minutes, making a lot of workers using it massively. There are similar lines that move people from and to further industrial part of the city looking for the same result: Less cars in the road congesting the circulation, less pollution, less need to parking spot to the people, and less people who don't need a car.
- Glawen 4y agoOf course that depends, the place I'm working now has a train station just in front of the building, but I don't take it because there are only 2 train in the morning and 2 in the evening. My previous employer had a train station in front of the building, and a train every 30min. I didn't take my car.