Ian "nostr.naut.social" D on Nostr: Gloucester, Cheltenham, Newcastle, Bristol, and family in Oxford. All are limited by ...
Gloucester, Cheltenham, Newcastle, Bristol, and family in Oxford. All are limited by their geography in what they can do to improve, but big cities trying to be more liveable is excellent.
I lived in London for a couple of years before the cleaner rules, and while it had terrible air (still does, not so bad though, emission have clearly reduced), and it will never be a 15 min city, it did have excellent transport. Most Londoners I met don't have a car, don't need one. Many had never even learned to drive (bit of a shocker that one. I learned at 17. Provinces had to, or you were walking the 5 miles back from town after 7pm).
My nephew when a toddler living in Oxford used to line up his toy cars. For a race you say? Nope, his game was "traffic jams and car parks". That was 20 years ago. Oxford hasn't been freely drivable since about 1975.
It might be that you are in the US and haven't lived in fairly compact cities, where, provided that alternatives exist, cars can get optional.
FWIW I lived outside Rochester NY as a kid for 18 months. Loved it, but, we had to drive EVERYWHERE. We even took the bus to school, a distance that in the UK, at 7, I'd have been expected to walk. By myself. (Less than 2 miles. At 11, it goes up to 3 miles).
Drive to the shops, which at home, i walked to. Drive to the library, which, at home, i walked to.
Some constraints exist due to infrastructure, but many are in the mind.
I lived in London for a couple of years before the cleaner rules, and while it had terrible air (still does, not so bad though, emission have clearly reduced), and it will never be a 15 min city, it did have excellent transport. Most Londoners I met don't have a car, don't need one. Many had never even learned to drive (bit of a shocker that one. I learned at 17. Provinces had to, or you were walking the 5 miles back from town after 7pm).
My nephew when a toddler living in Oxford used to line up his toy cars. For a race you say? Nope, his game was "traffic jams and car parks". That was 20 years ago. Oxford hasn't been freely drivable since about 1975.
It might be that you are in the US and haven't lived in fairly compact cities, where, provided that alternatives exist, cars can get optional.
FWIW I lived outside Rochester NY as a kid for 18 months. Loved it, but, we had to drive EVERYWHERE. We even took the bus to school, a distance that in the UK, at 7, I'd have been expected to walk. By myself. (Less than 2 miles. At 11, it goes up to 3 miles).
Drive to the shops, which at home, i walked to. Drive to the library, which, at home, i walked to.
Some constraints exist due to infrastructure, but many are in the mind.