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> 70% of people outside Paris and Lyon drive to work I don't see a problem with this. You use whatever works the best, and for smaller cities and towns that's
by tormeh 3y ago
> 70% of people outside Paris and Lyon drive to work
I don't see a problem with this. You use whatever works the best, and for smaller cities and towns that's going to be a car. Public transport only starts to make sense above the 1 million inhabitants mark, and even then it doesn't really get good until 2-3 million.
- rspoerri 3y agoFunny how switzerland with no city above 500‘000 inhabitants has public transport to the furtest edge. Even to villages with only a few hundert people. The whole country only has 9mio peoples.
- ralfn 3y agoIt has to do with density, not size. I live in the Netherlands. Most major cities and smaller cities has good public transit and walkable centers. Not even Amsterdam has one 1 million inhabitants. The general consensus about urban design suggest it's all about density, mixed zoning and separated bike paths and traffic calming.
- tormeh 3y agoOf course it's about density, but car-centric cities aren't really forced to become dense until they cross that 2-3 million threshold somewhere. But that's not what I wanted to say. The issue with the Netherlands is that the Randstad is really one big city, and that makes comparisons with other places misleading.