The car-free movement is a broad, informal, emergent network of individuals and organizations including social activists, urban planners, transportation engineers and others, brought together by a shared belief that large and/or high-speed motorized vehicles (cars, trucks, tractor units, motorcycles, …)[1] are too dominant in most modern cities. The goal of the movement is to create places where motorized vehicle use is greatly reduced or eliminated, to convert road and parking space to other public uses and to rebuild compact urban environments where most destinations are within easy reach by other means, including walking, cycling, personal transporters, low impact vehicles such as golf carts, neighborhood electric vehicles, kei cars and quadricycles, mobility as a service or public transport.[2]
Could work in Europe and Asia. It's impossible to implement in America tho, because the cities have been planned from the start in a way as to force people to use automobiles.
Jaxon Cook
I hate cars
Jackson Lewis
Not the whole thing, but pieces could be possible. Increase telecommuting, milk-truck-style route delivery to cut down on routine shopping trips, replace long-haul trucking with repaired rail lines, etc.
Cars suck but don't let porky tell you individual choices are going to save da erf from global warming.
Robert Rogers
Euro here. We dont need to ban cars outright but I do fully support a more extensive public transporation network (government owned and operated for use, paid for publically) and the construction of a european wide network of high speed rail to link major urban centres and reduce the need for poluting airflight, while operating at about the same distance/hour (taking into account the lack of check in time, screening, arriving early, etc that come with trains) and about the same price, since currently airplanes dont pay any taxes while other modes do, which is why they are so cheap, and this isnt changed due to competitive pressure on which country hosts low-cost aircraft for neighbouring countries and which country is the european hub.
Also if the UK gets cold feet we need a cheaper regular
Also plz. If you want everyone to cycle just get everyone on an ebike. With lithium battery improvements they are viable now, and places like berlin which were previously just a bit too hilly now use a lot of ebikes, they give you just that extra push uphill, and modern ones cycle equally smooth and effortlessly as normal ones. (my mums cycles lighter than my own bike, with the assist turned off).
Everything can be changed. Imagine the space you guys could free up simply by eliminating the legally mandated minimum parking requirements alone. Add to that some actually semi reliable railway system, subway system or tram system and you can basically get almost all american cities and their suburbs/satalite towns into public transport. A 70 kilometer trip (~40 miles) only takes about 30 minutes by direct train, and thats not even a high speed rail. Can you consistently do 80 miles an hour?
Wait you guys dont already get your groceries delivered? Get with the times, the netherlands is full of these fucking trucks doing their trip, delivering whole streets at the time. Add a neighbourhood locker system where you get texted a code to open a box like they have in china and they can basically deliver everything in one go.
Cooper James
In order to build a movement on direct action based in the social congress of persons, you have to, you know, not keep them in a box totally fucking isolated 100% of the time. Just sayin'
Josiah Miller
not only are cars are far too destructive to the environment but their very existence leads to the construction of even more environmentally destructive infrastructure like highways and the creation of a pro-capitalist mindset by promoting consumerism and disincentivizing public transportation as well as the passage of regulations designed to limit human mobility by sequestering roads so that only cars can move on them (regulation that was only passed because car companies pressured the government to make jaywalking illegal as a way to force people to buy cars) Anti-Auto-Aktion gang
Christopher Thompson
It would take a massive restructuring of infrastructure that isn't going to come from our porky government and would be viciously opposed by private firms. We're going to have to make the revolution if we want to end the hellscape that is burger transportation.
