Re:If You Can’t Ban Cars Downtown, Take Away Parking Spaces
by jacobolus on Saturday June 24, 2017 @01:14PM
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I have friends with multiple young children and no nannies who do just fine walking their whole brood around the (urban) neighborhood.
You can easily carry quite a lot of shopping bags for 2 or 3 kilometers in a wagon if you need to.
Or if you like, you can use a car occasionally for shopping trips (or even a taxi), and for a workday commute and the great majority of other trips, stick to walking/transit/bikes. Even if people just ditched their cars for 80% of their trips it would make the city overall much more pleasant.
One is easily manageable, but consider families or single parents with 2-3 small children and the amount of stuff they need to carry with them, buy when shopping etc. ...
Not everyone can afford to move to expensive suburbs or hire a nanny.
I live on the outskirts of a larger-sized european city with perfect public transport and still prefer my (electric) car, since it's so much faster, cleaner, safer and more comfortable. I'd use it much less if I lived in the city center, but it'd still be a reduction in living standards (carrying shopping bags 500m vs. perhaps 100m total etc.).