| > Why? Cars are expensive, inefficient, and use a huge amount of resources relative to their transportation capability. > Need to make enough parking available for a building. Disagree. And we can agree to disagree on this one, but I am a big fan of urban areas not having mandatory minimum parking. Space spent on cars means space not spent on housing, which most urban areas need much more. > This is a solved problem in private residential apartments and office buildings. It's not a solved problem - offices do not have enough parking for everyone to drive in, and most residential towers spend a huge amount of space housing cars rather than people. > pollution is always produced. Do you think trains and busses do not produce large amount of pollution? Per person/cargo transported? Much, much less pollution. Like an order of magnitude less. > We have flexibility of time, space, luggage, comfort, temperature, health, music, speed, privacy, basically everything. You've never lived in a place with good public transport? Speed, time, and comfort are pretty normal for well funded transport. Yes, you lose some privacy. But also, I'm not advocating for you to get rid of all your cars. There are plenty of models where a family does well with zero or one cars, relying on transit for most trips, and borrowing/renting a car or taxi when they can't make transit work. |