Also a huge number of people in the US travel to places that are walkable:

  • Disney World
  • Las Vegas (The strip is anyway)
  • DC
  • NYC
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    Yeah, I agree with you. Being 100% without a car is hard in most cases.

    And the answer I see is trains. For the amount of money that does into the car industry (+ multi lane roads, administration, maintenance, etc) we could have super fancy, comfy, fast, frequent, and cheap/free trains.

    And people would have more mobility too, at a fraction of the cost and environmental damage.

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      Robust public transit is the obvious answer to ridding ourselves of the car menace. Now, I need a few hundred billion dollars to “lobby” this into existence.

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      Trains for long distance + trolleys and subways for local travel. There will invariably be people whose transportation needs require a private vehicle but this combo alone would clear up the majority of cars on the road in my opinion.

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        Yes, exactly this.

        I would love all city roads to look like this (but non-monoculture, have some flowers):

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        Even in countries with pretty good public transit like the UK and Germany, a large majority of families have a private vehicle. If we had better trains and subways in the US, I don’t think too many people would sell their cars, but only use them once or twice a week, rather than once or twice a day.

        That’s a huge win in my book.

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          UK and Germany don’t have good public transport, maybe except for individual cities. Switzerland on the other hand has good and frequent public transport nationwide.

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            As an American who has experienced Deutsche Bahn, National Rail, and Amtrak, I’ll stand by Germany and the UK having pretty good inter-city rail compared to us. Lübeck and Bath are the cities there I’ve been with the worst public transit, and they would be well above average in the US.

            I haven’t been to Switzerland yet, but it’s not shocking to hear the public transit there is all-around better.

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        The trains in Japans greater Tokyo area were amazing when I went to visit. 99 percent of the time they took like 3 or 4 minites more than taking a car and I didn’t need tk worry about parking or driving.