Re:The electric car has dropped out of favor in Denmark
by TulliusCicero on Monday June 12, 2017 @10:37AM
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What people want is car accessibility for their car in particular, but none of the pesky traffic that results from other people having cars. In other words, a fantasy.
Re:The electric car has dropped out of favor in Denmark
by Grustaf on Monday June 12, 2017 @12:08PM
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No we don't. Danish people are supposed to be the happiest on earth, and Copenhagen is definitely not a car-dependent city.
Speaking more generally, I'd say few cities in Europe fit your description. Within the city limits I think people pretty much expect cars to be the least practical mode of transport. Very few shops have parking lots, and getting around is very slow. It's probably true in the US though.
Re:The electric car has dropped out of favor in Denmark
by detritus on Monday June 12, 2017 @02:15PM
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London is not a wonderful place to live in any more (immo) but would be infinitely worse if it required a car to move around usefully.
Thankfully the one thing that this place gets right is the range and organisation of Public Transport.
That's a nice rationalizing lie we like to tell ourselves; they are not nice to live in, but we vastly prefer them to be that way and get very, very angry if something is not car-accessible.