Europe’s cities are making less room for cars after coronavirus

Re:Europe’s cities are making less room for cars after coron... by ProZsolt on Sunday April 26, 2020 @07:45AM (#22986431)

I don't know where the OP lives, but in Europe it is pretty durable. I have a driving license, but I never owned or rented a car while living in the EU. I mostly cycled while living in Budapest and London. You can use the train or fly if you want to go everywhere else. Everything is cheap (compare to owning a car) and reasonably fast.

When I moved to New Zealand after ~2 weeks I bought a car because it wasn't feasible to move around without one.

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Re:Europe’s cities are making less room for cars after coron... by ghaff on Sunday April 26, 2020 @08:10AM (#22986554)

It's definitely more feasible in much of Europe than in most of the US. You're still somewhat constrained to where there's decent rail or bus service--or where you can go with friends/partner; you're probably not going to travel around the Scottish highlands without a car.

But, if you live and work in a relatively major city and are fine with mostly traveling to and from where there's good public transit you can make it work.

It's much harder in the US if only because, outside of New York City, there's sort of an expectation you have a car and things tend to be organized with that expectation in mind. People can and do get help from friends with cars but this becomes harder as you get further out of school.

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