[InitialLastName]

> Also somehow the amount of cars per capita is still very high in NL.

That's OK. We can keep up the consumerist "Everybody needs a car" mentality as long as the amount of driving per capita stays low.

[SahAssar]

The manufacturing of a car still consumes a lot of resources and lets out a lot of CO2 though, right?

[pcthrowaway]

A good alternative to this is carsharing. Lots of people in Vancouver don't own a car, they just take one from one of the 5 car-shares when they need one

[Reason077]

Parked cars take up a lot of space in city centres that could be used more productively.