Despite saving hundreds of dollars and even making new friends, none of the people who agreed to ditch their car for this Brisbane experiment wanted to go car-free permanently. This is why.
  • rotkehle @feddit.org
    4·
    1 month ago

    living in Berlin Germany and most of my friends never had a car nor a driver’s licence. just build the right infrastructure and people stop being dependent on cars, simple as that.

    • Professorozone@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 month ago

      Went to high school in Berlin, my favorite city, and if I lived there now I think a car would be a real annoyance. Expensive. Narrow streets. Lousy parking. There are so many ways to get around: walking, bicycling, bus,street car, subway and infrastructure for all of those things. If you really need a car you can always call an Uber or taxi.

        • Professorozone@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 month ago

          Absolutely. They have bike paths and even little traffic lights for them. The city is huge but you can put a bike on a bus, at least some of them.

          • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            1 month ago

            I’m always envious of people who have access to this in the places where they live.

            I live in my country’s second best bikeable city and it leaves A LOT to be desired; but I used to live on the best bikeable city and that taught me that there’s much to be desired for bikeable cities in the United States.

  • humble_boatsman@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    This is a bat shit premise. Why not focus on reducing dependency. Not just surprise! you can’t live your current existence without a car!

    • Panini@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      That was sorta the intended result here, to emphasize that to move away from cars without heavily sacrificing their QOL, most people need better public transportation and non-car options than their city is currently providing them. So the city needs to make changes to reduce dependency.

  • CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.netEnglish
    2·
    1 month ago

    I was 100% car free when I lived in London and Melbourne, but outside of the major cities there’s so little investment in public transport, (particularly in Australia) it’s almost impossible.

  • iByteABit@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 month ago

    If the city I lived in was designed for it I would sell my car the very next day, but in the current state of it it’s both very impractical and very dangerous