lnxtx (xe/xem/xyr)A researcher asked 10 people to go car-free for 20 days. None wanted to continue
GamechangerThe same was done in Vienna. People did not use their car for 3 months.
Results
- 2/3 could imagine living without a car
- 25% have sold or are planning to sell their car
(German source)[www.autowette.at]
agamemnonymousConsidering it was founded, like, 2000 years ago, that isn’t really surprising. Turns out, being a pedestrian in a city which was established in a millennium when being a pedestrian was the norm is quite easy compared to the same effort in much more recent municipalities. Have you ever really paid attention to the plot of Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Spotted the American.
You have very little understanding about city development and planning. Otherwise you’d know that most of the transport corridors that are in use today were started in the Industrialisation period when trams were introduced.
A city with millions of inhabitants can’t be explained by looking at the small population in the centre.
Vienna has an amazingly good and inexpensive public transport system and quite good bike routes combined with fairly inexpensive housing due to good city governance over several decades (social democratic party by and large).
Vienna is a dream for public transit. Didn’t get to use the cycle routes but it seemed I was never far away from any transit. Beautiful city to boot.
The framework was still established long before cars, which was then easier to expand upon. Absolutely governance has a huge effect, but more modern cities were developed with cars in mind, with endless suburban sprawl. It’s far easier to implement public transportation in places that were originally built around walkable city centers.
Additionally, places that weren’t bombed to hell in WWII didn’t have the opportunity to redesign for public transit mid-century. They grew with car-centric infrastructure and never reset. I’m not saying we shouldn’t develop public transit, we absolutely should, I’m just saying it’s harder to implement with existing infrastructure and layout that spread everything out over dozens of miles.