Thanks for sharing this. I've thought about the "city vehicle" problem for a long time, and wish I knew something tactical we could do about it. One of my crazy dreams is to build a big neighborhood with tiny streets and only light electric vehicles allowed -- I think being able to experience that in person in the US would be both very p…
Thanks for sharing this. I've thought about the "city vehicle" problem for a long time, and wish I knew something tactical we could do about it. One of my crazy dreams is to build a big neighborhood with tiny streets and only light electric vehicles allowed -- I think being able to experience that in person in the US would be both very popular and very persuasive to a lot of people. But, you know, there isn't really a path to do that or someone would have done it already.
Thanks for sharing this. I've thought about the "city vehicle" problem for a long time, and wish I knew something tactical we could do about it. One of my crazy dreams is to build a big neighborhood with tiny streets and only light electric vehicles allowed -- I think being able to experience that in person in the US would be both very popular and very persuasive to a lot of people. But, you know, there isn't really a path to do that or someone would have done it already.
The obvious path to that is pedestrianisation of individual streets. It’s very common in Europe. Here’s an example from London: https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the-pedestrianisation-of-strand-has-been-completed-59342/