Thank you for that super-enthusiastic response. Very flattering. 🙂

Your point is valid, and I would put everyone with a genuine reason for owning a car in the 25% that — as it stands — have no choice but to own one. I am an accessibility advocate and I have a relative who is a wheelchair user and while her electric wheelchair gets her places 90% of the time, that 10% when she needs a car is a Godsend. But… this is where I think self-driving vehicles could be the solution, and instead of owning one, you’d just have one pick you up.

Now, let’s look at snow. Frankly y’all just need more huskies! 🤣 Joking. 🙂 It’s a potentially valid case where public transport is unsustainable. I will say this though, governments and local administrations don’t spend as much effort and time as they should around figuring out how to make public transportation better. City and town and village planners need to look more carefully too at how to best arrange things so people need to travel less.

As far back as the 80s in Romania, every neighbourhood would have its schools, shops, post-office, market, GP. Virtually anything you really needed you could get to on foot. That’s clever planning and we must return to that. We must encourage environmentally friendly city and rural planning. Dublin for instance is going through the worst property crisis at the moment, but it’s not due to lack of space, but rather incompetent use of space.