A researcher asked 10 people to go car-free for 20 days. None wanted to continue

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A researcher asked 10 people to go car-free for 20 days. None wanted to continue - Sopuli

Article about an experiment from Brisbane, Australia.

The 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]

Auto-Wette - Team Währing - 3 MONATE OHNE EIGENES AUTO

Von Mai bis Juli testen die Teilnehmer*innen, wie alltagstauglich ein Leben mit Öffis, Rad, zu Fuß und Sharing-Angeboten wirklich ist. Denn Ende April hieß es: Kennzeichen runter – und Autos in die Garage.

Auto-Wette - Team Währing
Considering 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?

Fair point. We even maintained our 2000 year old skyscrapers here.

But you forget, that we’re living in forest cities with exploding trees!

That this idiot even got a single vote is beyond me…but well, who am I to talk with Kickl promoting the same kind of xenophobia.
But I’m getting a bit off topic, although all those conversatives world wide seem to love to be stuck in their cars in traffic jams…