Comments on: Imagining a Car-Free World

By: Readers React to a Car-Free World

Readers React to a Car-Free World — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:57:34 +0000

[...] weekend, I wrote about the mostly car-free German community of Vauban and I received lots of great responses both by email [...]

By: ron

ron — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:36:25 +0000

It’s 1960’s in NYC, and my uncle, a lawyer, rides the subway to work. His Plymouth is parked in a garage in the basement of his building, and is used solely to “cruise” on Sunday mornings when there is no traffic. All shopping, dining, etc is done within walking distance of his apartment. I especially remember the milk vending machine in the basement of the apartment. This is 50-year old news.

By: Mel Rollins

Mel Rollins — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:01:47 +0000

A nutty environmental fantasy. Even Catalina uses golf carts for local trnsportation. It is also a small, tight community with very limited amenities. America didn,t become great by living like ants in a nest. Bicycles are great fot kids and athletic types but a hazard for the older people and automobile drivers. They don’t stayin their lanes thinking the white line is to be driven on instead of the outer limit of their lane. There is plenty of oil to be had if we really want to get it. We don’t need to become swlaves to the social designers.

By: dick matheson

dick matheson — Mon, 18 May 2009 03:52:32 +0000

Cheap energy flattened and shrank our world. Mandating a green utopia (Vaubanizing) may provide a fine model, but it won’t ramp up until energy gets very expensive. If gasoline were $20./ gallon and it cost $2000.pp for a round trip flight to visit your parents at Christmas, the world would begin to adapt organically, rather than by fiat or from idealism. We WILL be cursed by our descendants for squandering the bison, the rainforest, and the oil.

By: Mary Glenn

Mary Glenn — Sun, 17 May 2009 22:48:11 +0000

This would be a great idea if we were not so scattered. In our area even the buses do not go where we often need to go, so a car is almost a necessity to get around. Wish our city fathers were more alert to what we really need.