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?

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.