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Sometimes it feels like folks in US would build anything but efficient transit 🤦
Emotional support truck
Emotional support truck, blocking the sidewalk, sticking out into the road and with an empty driveway infront of it.
"The right to access every building in a city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually the right to destroy the city."
- Lewis Mumford, 1964
Illustration by Richard Hedman
People would probably hate cars a lot less if they were limited in size and speed to a golf cart
Pros of golf carts and neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs) replacing all private cars within a city:
- Only goes as fast as a bicycle, so isn't a viable suburban commuter vehicle, meaning you'll probably only take it to the nearest transit station
- Only goes as fast as a bicycle, so isn't likely to kill people
- Excellent visibility, so less likely to run over children
- Much smaller and lighter, so building parking garages for park-and-rides would be a lot cheaper and less objectionable than with our current style of cars
- Electric
- Smaller batteries than jumbo EVs
- Compatible with dense, transit-oriented city development
- Could be installed with mandatory speed limiters
Cons:
- Less profit for GM and ExxonMobil
Toronto Hotel Parking Lot
I took this awhile ago and thought maybe someone would be amused by it. I miss that car.
We don't need trucks or diesel to move freight in cities, just cargo trams
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento_Northern_Railway
The Sacramento Northern Railway (reporting mark SN) was a 183-mile (295 km) electric interurban railway that connected Chico in northern California with Oakland via the California capital, Sacramento. In its operation it ran directly on the streets of Oakland, Sacramento, Yuba City, Chico, and Woodland and ran interurban passenger service until 1941 and freight service into the 1960s.
It is perfectly car sized, so it must be a parking spot.
RĂĽsselsheim, Germany
Thank the gods we live in such a car-saturated nation, how horrible it would be if this space was used to house people
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I have copied that idea from another community. I forgot which one so sorry!
Feel free to discuss that here, I would like that change because it makes it a lot easier