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Creating Car Free Cities
Silas writes "CarFree.com is a great site that "proposes a delightful solution to the vexing problem of urban automobiles." The site presents a fascinating, detailed proposal for a major city (1 million people in 100 square miles) that doesn't require the use of cars. This isn't a new concept; a lot of the ideas are modeled off of major car free cities in Europe (like Venice)." The page on Morocco is fascinating.
and you probably never leave the urban center unless you fly to another town right? You don't go camping, or kayaking or venture into the rural areas at all do you?
Without the cars, my little sister will be much safer as she walks that 3/4 mile in the dark from the subway to her house, instead of driving directly to her door.
And the "fun" neighborhoods will be great, since going to a different neighborhood, or a different city will be too difficult, so youll just have to enjoy the higer prices and lower quality of your neighborhod market. Or maybe youll be lucky and have all the variety of shops within your area that you want. You wont have a choice anyway, so suck it up.
ANd as for the health bennifits, yeah, its great. Why last january, i would have loved to have had to walk everywhere theough the snow and sleet, much better than taking my heated automobile. THe colds I would catch would definetly help my immune system, and the average health of the nation would go up as all the old people died from longer walks in bad weather.
Youre right, i cant see any downsides to this.
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Here's the problem. Make all the claims you want about the great convenience of public transportation, but nothing--nothing--NYC has beats the convenience of getting in your car, pulling right into a parking spot 100ft from the store (one of dozens of spots available), putting your purchases in your trunk, and then pulling right back up to your abode. This is city life in Atlanta. You don't walk anywhere, ever.
Yeah, that's why everyone in Atlanta weighs 300LB! In the rest of the South, too. I believe Houston is statistically the fattest city in America, followed by Richmond, VA. That's what you get when you have good-old-boy, no-rules, auto-centric development. No one walks, and everyone's fat. It breaks my heart to see middle aged (not old) people in Wal-Mart, riding those electric scooter things because they're too fat to walk. You just don't see that in NY, LA, SF, London or Paris. But in the South it's everywhere.