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What if the problem with cars was not their method of propulsion? Epthinktank | European Parliament (epthinktank.eu)

submitted 8 months ago by revisable677@feddit.de to c/europe@feddit.de

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Instead of just electrifying vehicles, cities should be investing in alternative methods of transportation. This article is by the Scientific Foresight Unit of the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS), a EU's own think tank.

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[–] revisable677@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully some of the people sitting in parliament will read this. In many cities we still have to fight for bicycle infrastructure. Car centric city designs should really start going out of fashion

[–] gian@lemmy.grys.it 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Only thing is that electrifying vehicles is a little easier than rebuilding a city (or part of it). And it don't need to be a really old part, even a 60/70 years old city zone is relatively hard to convert. Not to speak of even older zones.

But yes, newly build zone of city should be designed with this in mind.

[–] taladar@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Actually it really isn't easier to keep things car-oriented because building a city so there is enough room for cars is fundamentally impossible.

[–] gian@lemmy.grys.it 1 points 8 months ago

The point is not to build (or reshape) a city to have enough room for cars, but to build (or reshape) a city so that you don't need to have (or to use so often) a car for the day by day.

But yes, you can. Our cities are basically build this way, the only problem is that they are build with much lower number of cars in mind.