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.
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.
sure, but we deliberately chose a place we didn’t need a car, across the road from Harbour town on the Good Coast, never had an issue with traffic. A friend chose to live in bumfuck on the other side of the Freeway and complained endlessly about traffic.
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!
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.
sure, but we deliberately chose a place we didn’t need a car, across the road from Harbour town on the Good Coast, never had an issue with traffic. A friend chose to live in bumfuck on the other side of the Freeway and complained endlessly about traffic.
…okay? that is irrelevant to the conversation at hand