[virmundi]

Keep expanding your problem field. How do you create a car free society? I live in Palatka, FL. A small town that's great for tech since housing is low cost and we have reasonably fast Internet to facilitate remote work or cloud based solution development. But to get anything other than food, I have to travel at least 45 minutes to St Augustine unless I purchase online. This means I need a car.

For example, I have 12 5/4 cedar boards in my wife's car for storm window frames. I had to drive her Vibe to Jacksonville, which is an hour drive one way. No one around here sells cedar, let alone in 5/4 width. I can't get that delivered. Even if I wanted to, I need to pick the boards since I have aesthetic requirements.

How do we solve the small town problem?

[icebraining]

Not that I'm actually arguing for eliminating cars from small towns:

The solution is public transport; it seems you already have a train that goes to Jacksonville, though it's rather slow; the Brussels-Bruges line is about the same distance and takes only 1h, even with intermediate stops.

As for not having delivery, that's solved by the question itself: if people didn't have cars, they would definitively deliver!

As for choosing the boards, that's hardly a problem, you go to the shop, choose them and they'd package those specific boards and deliver them. That's fairly common for large items, at least here in Europe, where people (even small town dwellers) tend to have small cars.

[davidivadavid]

You still need to go there. Which is a 2 hour round-trip. Not practical.

[icebraining]

Yes, and so do you with a car, and it also takes 2h round-trip, as virmundi wrote.