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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes, of course delivery trucks need access to cities, some goods are not practical to move by cargo bike. As do emergency services and buses. Nobody disagrees with this. The problem in many cities is that streets are clogged with useless private cars. So the obvious solution is to ban private cars.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just because you have no need for a car, private cars are not necessarily useless.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Private cars in general are not useless, but private cars in the center of cities should be useless if the city is designed well. The space-transportation trade off does not make sense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

...if the city is designed well. You got the problem of the next city right on.

But even if I was living in a well-designed city, I would still use a private car, as moving handicapped people (like my wife) around on public transport is quite a nightmare. Yes, we have tried.