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Electric Cars aren't the answer, active and public transport through making our towns and city's more distributed and decentralized
by ravetcofx 3y ago
Electric Cars aren't the answer, active and public transport through making our towns and city's more distributed and decentralized
- kjkjadksj 3y agoThe more decentralized a place is the harder it is to offer good transit service. Some of the most famous and used american systems like chicago or nyc are hub and spoke centralized systems.
- dontlaugh 3y agoMost people live in cities. Even better, only a few countries vastly over consume per capita. The solution is straightforward technically, but not politically. Westerners (and especially Americans) will balk at public reducing consumption in line with the rest of the world.
- ravetcofx 3y agoWell people really seem to like the suburban model, in which case we need lower density mixed use commercial where we can have small grocers, cafes pubs, low rise offices intertwined with the suburbs, rather than the current euclidean zoning model
- kjkjadksj 3y agoHonestly thats not all that different than what exists in euclidian suburbs. You just have the offices/pubs/grocers on the arterial while housing is on residential blocks just off the arterial. I’ve always been able to walk to this sort of stuff even in lower density suburbs. Maybe I haven’t lived in the worst cases of them though.
- happytiger 3y agoPreach. Electric cars are not “the solution,” just a cleaner version of the old system. And this is a system that, even before climate became an awareness before it was a concern, was well on its way to creating the sixth mass extinction. We need balance with nature and natural systems and not just reduction in global warming potential. Though obviously global warming will accelerate these trends, the fellow life that keeps us all alive on this planet like honeybees and plankton is in serious trouble. So let’s keep that big picture in mind. We need higher density cities, massive changes to transportation systems to support them (beyond the personal car) in order to come back into balance with nature and the future of life on earth. Clean cars are a bridge technology to a future not an answer to what that future needs to look like.
- 57FkMytWjyFu 3y agoHave you ever ridden a bus? You can't decentralize public transit. Also, do you know the impact of tearing up old cement and putting new cement somewhere else? People are cray, man... we have to make do with what we have 9 times out of 10 rather than tear it up and replace it. "Strong Towns" and the like are full of it.
- ravetcofx 3y agoWhat on earth do you mean full of it? Improving our communities? Places are not static and unchanging, they are living and breathing that can and must change to better reflect society and ecology
- 57FkMytWjyFu 3y agoDo you think concrete is recyclable?