"You ever wonder where the food you eat gets grown and how it gets delivered"
the argument is strange, they don't exactly deliver 40 tons of wheat to the bakery with a taxi. Noone is arguing against cargo and utility vehicles unless they can be substituted by railway (which could be better designed, etc)
When public-transport-as-panacea folks create laws to disincentivize vehicles, they typically don't make distinction between cargo/utility and personal travel. Gasoline and vehicle import taxes, and anti-vehicle urban design and laws hit all forms of vehicular travel equally.
But again we're still stuck talking about cities. In any area where food is grown (or literally anywhere on earth outside of the .0001% of land that constitutes megacities), there is no public transport.
Do you think the people who grow your food are living as indentured servants on the land they cultivate, and never need to go anywhere?
Again, public transport is a fantastic solution for dense areas (ie. city cores). But cars are also a fantastic solution for the 99.9999% of places on earth that aren't a city core.
A feel-good PR greenwashing campaign by Tesco doesn't change that.
There's 8 billion of us, all living in different areas with different constraints. We can have both!
> When public-transport-as-panacea folks create laws to disincentivize vehicles, they typically don't make distinction between cargo/utility and personal travel.
... Wait, I mean they absolutely do. Pedestrianised streets are usually open to goods vehicles early in the morning for delivery, etc.
>> In any area where food is grown (or literally anywhere on earth outside of the .0001% of land that constitutes megacities), there is no public transport.
Here, I've put you smack in the middle of an area where food is grown and next to a rail station:
Drag the little man on the pin to admire the beautiful countryside.
Or scroll out to see the fields covering the land.
Btw, there are bus lines also but they don't appear on the map because the locals know where the stops are, and the bus drivers know where the stops are, and what they're called, and who will be waiting at what time, so there's no need for stop signs. Usually the signs were there when the routes were first created but they have er, gone missing since.
Most pedestrian areas I know (and I've lived in some) are also accessible to at least light cargo trucks. I've also seen semi trucks in larger streets, and (large) cargo bikes in narrow ones.
In my experience, shops and businesses tend to get deliveries early in the morning, when the streets are nearly empty. On the contrary, delivery vehicles tend to get exempted from "anti-car" rules, or regulated to some designated time slots.
the argument is strange, they don't exactly deliver 40 tons of wheat to the bakery with a taxi. Noone is arguing against cargo and utility vehicles unless they can be substituted by railway (which could be better designed, etc)
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