One of the strangest parts of advocating for more walkable, bike-friendly, transit-oriented cities is constantly being accused of wanting to ban cars or saying that no one should ever drive. Things...
Cars have their place. But most people don’t really need them for most things. Shorter trips are common for people, which can be handled by bike or ebike. Longer journeys can be handled by bus or rail.
Unless you are moving furniture, heavy equipment, or going to a remote location, I’m sure a bike or bus can get you there most of the time, if you live in a good city. Cars enable sprawl, which is a vicious cycle of longer commutes, less transit, and ugh … Power centers.
Shorter trips can be handled by bike by people young and able enough to use them. And I would only take an ebike into a city where I could take it inside in order not to get it stolen.
For using bus or train for longer journeys you need an existing, reliable working and affordable service, which basically only exists inside cities. Once you need to get outside the centers, or want to get from the country into the city, you are basically f-ed.
Cars have their place. But most people don’t really need them for most things. Shorter trips are common for people, which can be handled by bike or ebike. Longer journeys can be handled by bus or rail.
Unless you are moving furniture, heavy equipment, or going to a remote location, I’m sure a bike or bus can get you there most of the time, if you live in a good city. Cars enable sprawl, which is a vicious cycle of longer commutes, less transit, and ugh … Power centers.
Shorter trips can be handled by bike by people young and able enough to use them. And I would only take an ebike into a city where I could take it inside in order not to get it stolen.
For using bus or train for longer journeys you need an existing, reliable working and affordable service, which basically only exists inside cities. Once you need to get outside the centers, or want to get from the country into the city, you are basically f-ed.