cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40818280
If there’s anything we should take from Japan, it’s treating cars like second class citizens behind transit instead of the other way around. The cute tiny cars are more a side effect of that.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40818280
If there’s anything we should take from Japan, it’s treating cars like second class citizens behind transit instead of the other way around. The cute tiny cars are more a side effect of that.
I don’t hate the idea of making Kei cars available for niche needs. I live in a small town and I can commute and get groceries without ever going on the highway. The town is too small for public transit to be any good (seriously it takes a 1 hour bus ride with transfers for a drive that would take 12 minutes in a car). But a kei car would be perfect for this.
Also kei trucks are amazing. If it can convince some people to not daily drive a huge pickup truck just in case they need to move a couch one day it would be worth it.
When I was in nyc a few weeks ago, I saw Amazon delivery cargo bicycles/tricycles that seemed to work great in that environment, and despite the weather. I’m sure a big part of it was the protected bike lanes are everywhere, but delivery by those must be much faster and safer than trying to navigate a truck across Manhattan. Some of those were as big as Kei cars
I find that people who own big trucks are also happy when they get the opportunity to use the big truck to help others move furniture. It’s like a boat - always better to know someone who owns a boat rather than own the boat