That’s how portland Oregon feels. They have houses and such all throughout many areas with shops. I’m sure it could get annoying for home owners to have cars parked outside their houses all the time, but not needing a car to go into town is probably a great trade off.
The thing with that system is that all the people living in those areas don’t need to go anywhere to get their daily needs, they can just walk down and around the block. Food, deliveries, house services and utilities, it was all there. And these are small shops so people from outside wouldn’t really bother to come since they’d have their own where they live.
And whatever isn’t there locally, you can just get delivered from across town by the army of electric scooters.
And of course the public transit system is crazy good so I can just grab a cab, take a bus or the metro. I never missed my car, is what I’m saying.
But of course that’s a giant city thing. The smaller the city, the less and less this is possible and the more people will use their car. I’m back in France now in a tiny town in the countryside (60k ppl) , and I couldn’t function without a car.
In France it’s a préfecture, and the biggest town in the department. But it’s still a small town, really, with mostly old people (avg age is 46) while the young flee to bigger cities.
In Ireland I was living in a town the same size (60k) and it was the most important town in the county, and felt a lot more “important” with a lot more business, more youth, more work… Basically if you needed more, you went to Dublin or Belfast. Or abroad, like many of my mates did.
But yeah, 60k is nothing when you live in a megapolis like Wuhan.
That’s how portland Oregon feels. They have houses and such all throughout many areas with shops. I’m sure it could get annoying for home owners to have cars parked outside their houses all the time, but not needing a car to go into town is probably a great trade off.
The thing with that system is that all the people living in those areas don’t need to go anywhere to get their daily needs, they can just walk down and around the block. Food, deliveries, house services and utilities, it was all there. And these are small shops so people from outside wouldn’t really bother to come since they’d have their own where they live.
And whatever isn’t there locally, you can just get delivered from across town by the army of electric scooters. And of course the public transit system is crazy good so I can just grab a cab, take a bus or the metro. I never missed my car, is what I’m saying.
But of course that’s a giant city thing. The smaller the city, the less and less this is possible and the more people will use their car. I’m back in France now in a tiny town in the countryside (60k ppl) , and I couldn’t function without a car.
60k “tiny”?
Haha you’re right, sorry!
In France it’s a préfecture, and the biggest town in the department. But it’s still a small town, really, with mostly old people (avg age is 46) while the young flee to bigger cities.
In Ireland I was living in a town the same size (60k) and it was the most important town in the county, and felt a lot more “important” with a lot more business, more youth, more work… Basically if you needed more, you went to Dublin or Belfast. Or abroad, like many of my mates did.
But yeah, 60k is nothing when you live in a megapolis like Wuhan.
It’s all so relative, it’s a bit crazy.