cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/22605592
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2024
166 points (93.7% liked)
Fuck Cars
9603 readers
838 users here now
A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let's explore the bad world of Cars!
Rules
1. Be Civil
You may not agree on ideas, but please do not be needlessly rude or insulting to other people in this community.
2. No hate speech
Don't discriminate or disparage people on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexuality.
3. Don't harass people
Don't follow people you disagree with into multiple threads or into PMs to insult, disparage, or otherwise attack them. And certainly don't doxx any non-public figures.
4. Stay on topic
This community is about cars, their externalities in society, car-dependency, and solutions to these.
5. No reposts
Do not repost content that has already been posted in this community.
Moderator discretion will be used to judge reports with regard to the above rules.
Posting Guidelines
In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:
- [meta] for discussions/suggestions about this community itself
- [article] for news articles
- [blog] for any blog-style content
- [video] for video resources
- [academic] for academic studies and sources
- [discussion] for text post questions, rants, and/or discussions
- [meme] for memes
- [image] for any non-meme images
- [misc] for anything that doesn’t fall cleanly into any of the other categories
Recommended communities:
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
At least japan is walkable and has high speed rail so for many owning a car can be optional.
The big cities are walkable / have good transport, but the countryside is inaccessible without a car for the most part.
I don't know Japan at all, but might there be more space for parking at residences in the countryside?
Good point, in the countryside there's not as much apartment living so it would probably be easier to install a charging station.
That is still a lot better than most countries on this list can say. Canada for example has the same goal but almost no walkable neighbourhoods, barely any transit and car centric planning and lifestyles. Canada is also larger and has a smaller population. I'm not certain the grid is ready for the switch. Of all the countrys on the map, japan seems to be one of the most prepared.
Unfortunately rural areas will almost always favour the car, however town/village centers should still be walkable.