California should be asking people not to buy EVs at all!
They should be massively investing in public transport and active transport.
But no, the obsession with private automobile ownership will continue to damn us all.
They should be massively investing in public transport and active transport.
But no, the obsession with private automobile ownership will continue to damn us all.
I lived for 7 years without a car in a big city. I finally moved to a place where cars were practical and will never go back.
No bus is point to point. Generally you need to walk, wait for the bus, take the bus (which is slower than driving because it makes multiple stops), get off the bus, wait for the next bus, and then repeat two or three times.
It can turn in 30 minute journey into a 90 minute one. Then you have to pay for the driver and the gas. If you live in a place where it is freezing cold or constantly raining that 15 minute walk to or from the bus could be a nightmare.
What about transporting things, like groceries? I couldn't carry both a gallon of milk and hardly anything else, let alone any small appliance. I relied heavily on Amazon and peapod, which is really wasteful and expensive.
We need to stop this obsession with public transportation.
That's the point, it's practical because it was designed that way. Intentionally. If you've lived in Europe, where mixed developments are the default, then cars are actually only necessary some of the times.
My cousins in France live literally 2 doors down from a boulangerie and get fresh out of the oven pastries in 5 min.
The ideal is that instead of using the car, you use your feet and it's even faster.
When thinking about a car, you also have to chalk-in parking and traffic. I bet you most people spend more than 10m door to door to their grocery store.
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Effectively never. When I do it's usually with someone who has a car so we go in theirs.
Public transport is hard because construction costs are absurdly high in areas of high density, there aren’t enough people in areas with low density, and asinine restrictive zoning prevents increasing density over time. But it is happening.
In the meantime, people love their cars, and will continue to drive them. Banning cars entirely would disproportionately affect folks who have to commute long distances to afford housing, not great. So might as well mandate that the fleet turn over to something less harmful to the planet’s ability to support our way of life.