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With a fully functional, affordable, universal public transport system, owning a car is a luxury, not a need.
It never was a need. This is a myth build by the car manufacturers. They lobbied for the car centered model with oil companies. This never was the model.
The same applies for suburbs full of houses.
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It takes 14 hours to walk across the whole country at its widest point.
City
My point is it's unnecessary to own a car in a place that is so small. I'd have to hike for several days across windswept mountains in subzero temperatures to get to the next large(ish) town.
I 100% agree with you. I live in a City smaller than singapur and the amount of cars that clog the public transportation is infuriating. And everyone has an SUV. If everyone would even just drive a smaller car, we would have 1/3rd more space everywhere
It's going down. It was $106,000 yesterday https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/04/singapore-cost-car-certificate
If you read the article, it says that price is for any car over 1.6 litre
MFW a honda fit cost as much as a tesla
I think the car itself is on top of this, but even the car is more expensive because they're harder to get
So getting closer to Aston Martin prices for that Honda.
Fuck cars!
Is there sufficient public transportation options there? Is the cost the same for rural as for urban populations?
The rural population of... Where?
think of the highrise-dwelling rooftop farmers!
The mole people living in the sewers of course
If you read the article, it says twice that the public transport is fantastic
We need that in the states. Fantastic public transportation and the ability to own a car should be expensive and hard to obtain even for the rich.
The amount of horrible drivers on the road in the states is crazy and way to easy to get a car and a DL.
Then you need to cancel the whole countryside… because there won’t be any « fantastic public transportation » outside of large cities… and living in the countryside doesn’t mean one is rich.
Most would get around by bike and bus. And take the train to the city.
They wouldn't need a car if there was decent public transport.
~sincerely someone from the country side in Europe.
2 buses a day and 1 train every hour - one direction at a time. You miss one due to whatever reason especially cancellation by an operator or delays and suddenly you lose 2 hours.
How’s that acceptable ?
~ someone else from europe in a small town.
The entire country is about the size of New York City.
Singapore’s public transport system is fantastic. I lived there for 2 years and never felt like I needed a car. You only get one as a status symbol.
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