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What if the problem with cars was not their method of propulsion? Epthinktank | European Parliament (epthinktank.eu)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Instead of just electrifying vehicles, cities should be investing in alternative methods of transportation. This article is by the Scientific Foresight Unit of the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS), a EU's own think tank.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The point is not to build (or reshape) a city to have enough room for cars, but to build (or reshape) a city so that you don't need to have (or to use so often) a car for the day by day.

But yes, you can. Our cities are basically build this way, the only problem is that they are build with much lower number of cars in mind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I mean sure, you can absolutely build a city to have enough room for cars for 10 rich assholes and everyone else can deal with the fact that the city is built to cater to those rich assholes instead of the majority of its inhabitants but I think it was pretty much implied by my statement that a car-oriented city would be the kind that has enough room for all its inhabitants and visitors to use cars and that is fundamentally impossible since cities have a lot of people and cars need huge amounts of space per user.