my dads idea: Ban cars inside cities have giant parking houses around the cities public transport - free - that comes by every 5-10 minutes
5-10 minutes is forever in some places
5 minutes and small delays would mean that some busses are a few seconds apart
Freiburg
Look up Pontevedra in spain.
I live in the Seattle area and while this stuff isn’t free it’s under $10 to park and ride both ways. Trains run every 7 minutes and the train will take you maybe five minutes extra if there’s no traffic. If you’re coming or going from the stadiums it’s faster and cheaper than driving to one of the lots close to them. Trains are pretty clean too, it’s a pretty great rail line
This one is actually a pretty good idea. Eventually we get rid of the parking garages too and cover everything with railways.
This post isn’t shit. Where is my refund?
Best we can do is make everything more gas dependent by canceling windmill projects.
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Things exist only theoretically if they’re outside the only real country, the US.
Idk what the other dude is talking about. It definitely exists some places.
Source: live in Copenhagen, don’t own a car.
No. Not really.
Cars are very common and walkable cities have been largely accommodated for the car.
Live in Stockholm, don’t have a car, can get around fine. Still want a car, but not for the city.
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55% of trips in Sweden are cars. I’d call that the default.
Sweden is a huge country, I drove 6 hours down to Malmö recently, and lots of people live on the outskirts where train and bus services are slower and more spotty. But if you live in the cities here, you don’t need a car.
I want a teleportation device that either gets me to my destination instantly or deletes me from existence.
i’ve never heard a young person Say this before!!! I should write this down. /s (Fixed)
Come back and proofread what you wrote and fix it so it’s intelligible.
While I agree in principle with the OP, I feel I must point out that that wouldn’t completely make cars unnecessary. There are still remote or sparsely populated areas (a lot actually in my country) where comprehensive public transport is impractical or next to impossible. I’d say we have use for both. Especially so if self driving means being able to summon a car when you need one without needing to own one. Or would that actually count as public transport then…?
Russian train
That’s a Velaro
The Russian version of it though
In Russian livery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapsan
I want people to keep some communities light hearted
I think self driving cars will help tbh. Only way it will happen.
Less parking. Solves last mile problem.
How will that help? By some studies, about 30% of traffic on downtown city streets is drivers circulating looking for street parking. With self-driving cars, they could cause congestion by circulating all day instead of parking.
If you get the train downtown then you are already downtown. You don’t need a self driving car at all. You need a way to get from your house to the train station by self driving car.
Or you have a lot more demand responsive transport. Everyone gets on a mini bus in the suburbs and you all get dropped off at the stores or locations you want one by one.
I’ve seen stuff about sharing them so there’s less cars parked and people just get dropped off and it takes the next person. But taxis already exist and haven’t solved the problem so I don’t think self driving cars are the answer there.
Ah yes, another US-centric post.
I’ll do you one better: I DON’T MIND CHECKING A GOD DAMN SCHEDULE. HELL, LET’S GET WILD AND MAKE THAT MFER PAPER I LITERALLY DGAF. Cuz I got that dawg in me!
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