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by fulafel
4391 days ago
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Young children and the infirm can be served pretty well by specialized public transport for them. Eg. my small city has school buses for kids who live far from schools, and minibus service that will pick up and drop off the elderly from doorstep. But of course public transport can't serve everybody's needs. But it can servve most people's needs, and if most people used it, it would be much better. If your remaining need the car was commonly groceries, it's easy to imagine effective solutions for that. (Deliveries, cheap neigbourhood car rental or co-owning, bike trailer, uber, etc). |
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Lovely word there "far". And what about the 4 year old who lives not "far"? Is he going to walk to school by himself?
And what about when it's not school? Or are young kids expected to never go anywhere?
> and minibus service that will pick up and drop off the elderly from doorstep.
Yah, I've seen those in a few cities, and you have to wait hours for your ride.
> But it can servve most people's needs
Only in extremely large cities (where you have enough people for constant 24/7 service), in smaller cities there is just not enough demand so you run fewer buses and it no longer works for most people.
> Deliveries
That only works if you know what you want, but not if you are comparing prices, looking for specials, what's fresh etc.
> cheap neigbourhood car rental or co-owning
You mean like the car service the author is ranting about?
> bike trailer
And there you go, you too can't seem to imagine the entire world is not like you.
Someone with a large family is going to take some of them with them when they go shopping. So you expect to have 4 kids under 6, plus a car load of groceries, on a bike trailer?