End of the Car Age: How Cities Are Outgrowing the Automobile
26th July 2015
Yet another fantasy sequence from Voice of the Crust The Guardian.
Gilles Vesco calls it the “new mobility”. It’s a vision of cities in which residents no longer rely on their cars but on public transport, shared cars and bikes and, above all, on real-time data on their smartphones. He anticipates a revolution which will transform not just transport but the cities themselves. “The goal is to rebalance the public space and create a city for people,” he says. “There will be less pollution, less noise, less stress; it will be a more walkable city.”
Just like in 1900, where all truly regressive ‘progressives’ want to wind up. Any resemblance to Disneyland is purely coincidental.
Walt would have loved these guys.
July 26th, 2015 at 14:05
I can only assume that the author has never relied on public transportation and had it fail him. Or, alternately, that he likes having someone else tell him where he can go and when he can go there.
July 27th, 2015 at 13:52
I’m always reminded of Jimmy Stewart’s line regarding the train transporting prisoners in [i]Shendanoah[/i]: “Seems to me you run a pretty poor sort of railroad, mister; it takes folks where they don’t want to go and won’t bring ’em back when they’re ready.”