Thread: Should cars be banned from inner parts of large European cities?
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Old 04-16-2007
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Re: Should cars be banned from inner parts of large European cities?
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Originally Posted by Gort View Post
Sucre in fact this is not true. There are plenty of people for example that live in downtown Chicago and do not even own a car. There are also plenty of suburbinites that take the Metra into Chicago to go to work each day. A lot of our big cities have PT systems, although not as well developed as Europes but that is changing.

Yes we do have a love affair with our cars. I personally would prefer to drive somewhere as opposed to having to rely on PT, but that doesn't mean when it makes sense to use PT I won't.
Yet, you cannot compare "downtown" of an American town and the city center of a European. Most people don't want to live downtown in the US while cities centers are extremely looked after in Europe.

On the whole, it is nightmare if you don't have a car in the USA, even in a large town with relatively good PT like in Boston for instance . Not so in Europe and "the not as well developed" makes the difference.
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