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.
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”?
By comparison with China, sorry ;) In France it’s a préfecture, haha !