Re: The insane progress nobody is talking about

On Thu, 27 Jun 2024 01:29:53 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> writes:

On 6/26/2024 8:50 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Tue, 25 Jun 2024 15:42:48 -0400, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

>

It can happen, but, for example, a commute to my last workplace by
PT would take over 4.5 hours, vs 45 minutes to an hour by car. It
would include about 20 minutes of walking, commuter rail, Boston T,
and a bus.
>
It would be hard to persuade me to do that.

 
And so it should be.
 
I haven't driven since 1983. I haven't owned a car since 1982, and
that was in West Germany. I really like public transit.
 
But someone with the commute you describe cannot be expected to use
it. And other situations exist, such as weekly grocery shopping for a
large family, or having to transport entire 12-year-old soccer teams
around.

>
And that's kind of the problem.  Our whole society is built around
families having, AND USING, cars.

>
That's relatively recent post WWII behavior, however.  If it is
truly unsustainable behavior, it must change sometime.

Hence the zoning changes for really large apartment buildings
(including some affordable housing) and the efforts to discourage car
useage.

Although Seattle hasn't yet reached the point of simply declaring the
entire downtown a "car-free" (ie, bus and pedestrian) zone.
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