The 15-minute city: It's a global climate solution — if it can get past conspiracy theories and NIMBYs
The 15-minute city: It's a global climate solution — if it can get past conspiracy theories and NIMBYs
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I've lived in Austin since 1999. In 2012 I moved from a suburban area to downtown greatly in part because it would take me at least a thirty minute drive each way to get anything done. The moment I moved downtown, I rarely used my car. The best restaurants, coffee shops, and bars in the city are minutes away on foot or bike. Super markets, pharmacies, etc are really close. Anything I can't I can order from Amazon and have it within hours or the next day. That's one vehicle making multiple stops versus dozens of vehicles going to stores.
The quality of life dive my move is significantly higher now that I don't have to battle traffic.
There are lots of places in the US like this. Most of us are too busy being out and doing shit to comment about it. I don’t have great transit options here, so it’s different from my years in Europe, but it’s sufficient.
I obviously cant get to every bar, venue, museum, and place with public transit. My access to gourmet foods and exceptional stuff is limited. The life I’m leading now is very low footprint and again it’s sufficient for me.
I sometimes can’t believe how we are ridiculed by people who have never even set foot outside of the EU or even watched a travel show. You are really really focusing on the wrong things.
Where I live down town has one grocery store and it is the expensive chain. A family could save money with a cheap used car.
I doubt it is enough to offset the cost of purchase, fuel, insurance, maintenance, registration, and in many areas property taxes. Driving even a cheap used car is rather expensive.
Not entirely, but cars are useful tools so a few other things as well. Don't forget that large family implies lots of bus pases while the car has the.same cost.