The Car-free City of the Future

This video lays out a concept for a future city that relies soley on mass transit (aerial trams and light rail), walking, and biking for its transportation.

Ultimately, things like electric, self-driving/autonomous, and flying cars are not the future. There is not an indefinite amount of space to continuously build more and wider roads and highways to accomodate ever more cars, nor are there infinite energy reserves to power them all. Basing the transportation system on every person having a private vehicle is fundamentally flawed, since it uses so much more energy, land, and materials than simply having fewer and larger vehicles that carry more people.

It is amazing how hardly anyone seems to give the car-based transportation system a second thought in spite of the countless acres its ugly infrastructure takes up, the insular and sedentary lifestyle it forces on us as a result, how pedestrians are made to walk amid traffic with no protection at all, the millions of people who are killed and injured in automobile accidents, and the tons upon tons of poison cars pump into the same atmosphere from which we have to breathe. Most people today believe the presence of the car is as inevitable as that of the horse was believed to be years ago, and their assumption is just as mistaken.

Mass transit is more efficient, more economical, cleaner, and safer, and effectively executed, it can take over from cars completely, as explained in this video.

Note that in the actual city, barriers would be situated along all the rail lines and bike paths to eliminate any risk of a pedestrian being struck. Also, the city is designed to be scalable so that as the population grows, new rings of development can be added around the perimeter.

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