Huge shift to EVs in Europe right now. Many cities there also increasing transit, removing roads, doing infill, building bike infrastructure
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We need massive reductions in the number of cars AND every remaining car to be an EV. Only possible path forward in CO2 constrained world.
Most of Europe never became anything like as auto dependent as US cities, there's no real analog to US exurbia and they're moving faster now
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When EVs announced in most of the world they don't include the part about getting rid of more cars cause they're already doing it.
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But here in N. America we need to remind ourselves that sustainable transportation is first and foremost a matter of needing less mobility.
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and that borrowing $$ to preserve current high-CO2 autodependence, much less building new highways/parking/etc, is inherently unsustainable.
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This is not quite right. There is less sprawl, but rising car ownership across London even in inner-city areas like Camberwell thnx to cpzs.
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Myth has been created (largely by
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So this minority urban group makes massive inter-city trips, causing road-building/tunnelling under Stonehenge, to regularly gulp fresh air.
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Then they return to the inner-city, land-grab side-street kerbspace under subsidised protection of inner-city councils ...
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... and block physical pedestrian/cyclist access to African shop fronts with their local kerbside car storage. It's a huge social/economic
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problem, and not at all restricted to negative air quality outcomes.
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