Life in the Spanish city that banned cars

Re:Life in the Spanish city that banned cars by shoguning on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @10:38AM (#18015693)

The design and density of cities will change even in the Midwest. Inter-city transport can and will change.

From Wikipedia: "There was a dense system of inter-city railways in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but after the decline of passenger railroad in North America in the 1960s, the inter-city lines decreased greatly and today the system is far less dense."

Wisconsin used to have inter-city rail servicing most/all of its population centers and even many of the smaller towns: https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3701p.rr006200/?r=0.514,0.298,...

Yes, today cars are the default, but that took a long time. Things will continue to change and it's hard to predict exactly how.

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Re:Life in the Spanish city that banned cars by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @08:25PM (#18020613)

It's not going to change for the thousands of small towns where mass transit can't be realistically employed.

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