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Just my thoughts: It would not be overnight. The infrastructure should change before the people do. The infrastructure needs to make it easier for people to walk, bike or take public transportation, rather than use their cars. Decrease the size of supermarkets, but make more of them and more spread out, so people can walk or bike to them. Create train lines that go to the most popular destinations like malls, schools/universities, hospitals, etc. Then remove car lanes from roads and make them into bike lanes. There needs to be bike lanes on all big roads. Otherwise cars have a "shortcut", which is not what we want. We want the bikes to have shortcuts. So we could make bike only "roads" which only are as wide as one car lane. But this will take a lot of money and motivation. All these things amplify the usefulness of each other. But that's just some of my rambling. Feel free to tell me wrong, or suggest something better.
All great stuff. Now convince this asshole to support it:
I'm totally here for all the things you said. But maybe 1 in 10 people where I am would even consider the idea. Carbrain has metastasized here, and it's terminal.
Yeah culture is the hardest to change, and the number one reason that any change in the right direction is so damn difficult and takes so long. I'm in LA for my summer vacation and everywhere I look I see something car related. Big road up to 6 or 7 lanes each way! I have never seen something like that before. Parking lots that are the same size as the building it belongs to, and cars that are double the size of the cars I'm used to. People that drive in cars like that probably will never change their view. But we don't need everybody to never drive again. But to make people drive less frequently.