For most of her life, Sabrina Vu had a car, even though you can’t drive far in her native Singapore, a city-state about a quarter of the size of Rhode Island.
A system where only the rich have cars and everybody else gets around with good public transport is certainly suboptimal. But it’s still far better than being completely choked with cars like many other Asian cities.
A system where only the rich have cars and everybody else gets around with good public transport is certainly suboptimal. But it’s still far better than being completely choked with cars like many other Asian cities.
Sounds pretty optimal to me… but it’d be nice if the rich people didn’t have cars either.
Barcelona manages just fine with a minimal amount of cars.
Not having to drive and having competent and plentiful public transit or walkable necessities sounds like a dream come true.