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Re:The Suez Canal will be widened by greggman3 on Sunday May 16, 2021 @12:06PM (#27174593)
As someone that lives in a city with lots of public transportation (Tokyo) and lots of stores surrounding almost every train/subway station, the number of opportunities to buy something daily is vastly higher than when I lived in a SoCal suburb and drove a car.

Basically with car, I went from home -> work -> home and unless I went really out of my way (pull into shopping center, park, get out of car, walk to store) then I wasn't near anything to buy. I basically had to make the conscious decision to go to a store.

Where as now, every time I enter or exit a train station I pass by 15-20 store fronts (book stores, bakeries, coffee stands, dessert stands, lunch stands, clothing stores, drug stores, grocery store, etc...) and it's literally 1-2 seconds off my path to be in one and buy something.

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Re:The Suez Canal will be widened by GekkePrutser on Sunday May 16, 2021 @11:15PM (#27179744)
Yeah I also live in a big city (Barcelona) and I really love life without owning a car. Everything is nearby and gone is all the time wasted commuting, the stress of driving in traffic and the many expenses that car ownership incur. I don't miss my car at all, on the contrary.
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Re:The Suez Canal will be widened by klipt on Sunday May 16, 2021 @05:11PM (#27177039)
Shifting demand from roads to trains seems like a good thing. But just closing roads without good public transit seems like it would be pretty bad for the economy.
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