Re:Cars kill cities
by paganel on Thursday January 26, 2012 @05:18AM
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> Gonna carry the new TV you just bought on the bus with you? I can't imagine doing normal shopping without a car.
I'm doing that just fine by using a tramway. And I'm not dead yet :) The good thing is that the hypermarket is only 3 tram stations away, and yes, there's a tram that goes by the hypermarket. Not to mention the 8AM-to-10PM grocery story that is open just outside my building, in case I need something very quick. That's what urbanization is all about. American suburbs don't fall into that category, they're more like Roman rural villas that will find a quick and painful death once the Barbarians "invade" (a stupid metaphor for when gasoline prices in the US will finally reach their normal levels).
And I carried my 43' plasma using a taxi, I agree. I paid the taxi driver 15 bucks (in my country's money), and he even helped me carry it to my building's front-door.
I'm doing that just fine by using a tramway. And I'm not dead yet :) The good thing is that the hypermarket is only 3 tram stations away, and yes, there's a tram that goes by the hypermarket. Not to mention the 8AM-to-10PM grocery story that is open just outside my building, in case I need something very quick. That's what urbanization is all about. American suburbs don't fall into that category, they're more like Roman rural villas that will find a quick and painful death once the Barbarians "invade" (a stupid metaphor for when gasoline prices in the US will finally reach their normal levels).
And I carried my 43' plasma using a taxi, I agree. I paid the taxi driver 15 bucks (in my country's money), and he even helped me carry it to my building's front-door.