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Part of the implication is that your habits would change with different transportation - for example a fairly common response about groceries is buying them in
by ZekeSulastin 3y ago
Part of the implication is that your habits would change with different transportation - for example a fairly common response about groceries is buying them in smaller quantities every few days at the (likely smaller and/or more specialized) grocer convenient to your home or transit stop; renting a truck or cargo van to self move furniture as needed if you can’t get it professionally moved (which probably isn’t a bad idea even if you do primarily use a car!); renting a car for a road trip or being able to use transit to get there instead; that kind of thing.
- dark-star 3y agoThe issue is that habits only change so much, because people are reluctant to give up all of the convenience of personal transportation just for the sake of "going car-free". For example, not havig a car is fine until your place of work is 10km out and using public transportation takes 1h whereas driving by car takes 10 minutes. Taking a bike or e-bike works, of course, unless it's raining or snowing or stormy, in which case you really want a fully enclosed (and heated) ride. I'm sure you can find some "but in that case just do X" for all those cases, but the point still stands that all these issues only exist because you ditched the car, even if it's just a small electric one. Designing a city/suburb/community that outright bans cars (by not providing any parking spaces) only works for a very small minority of the population