| > It's all fun and games until you have to transport 2 weeks worth of groceries with joint pain, or Ikea furniture in the street because the deliveryman couldn't access your street. The former case can be solved by either going shopping more regularly - or by making that possible in the first place by making sure there are grocery stores at regular walkable distances. If you have to use a car to transport your groceries or other regular (!) shopping, your community is underserved. The latter case can be solved by regulating delivery services to have enough staff and technology (i.e. pallet trucks) to be able to haul all the furniture from the nearest delivery drop-off point. > It's all fun and games until you find out that you can't have as many customers as you thought to because people can't find a parking spot near your shop Objective data from Berlin's experiment shows that this concern is relatively unfounded - they looked at anonymized cellphone tower data to determine a sizable increase in pedestrian traffic for the shops [1]. For stores selling stuff that is not easily transportable without a car (e.g. kitchens), there should be incentives to move these to a new location that is accessible with cars or by delivery services. > Paris is implementing this and if you live in the suburbs, going out to Paris is a logistic nightmare. Well, they are learning. The important thing was to get started in the first place. Now with real-world experiences they can adapt and improve. > And no, taxis won't always accept to drive you to your hometown with no night time bus service. Again, the answer of this is government regulation. In Germany, taxis are mandated by law to serve you. [1] https://efahrer.chip.de/news/friedrichstrasse-in-berlin-schm... |