Michael McDowell: Since all our planned public transport projects are many, many years from completion, banning all cars, even EVs, in pursuit of climate change goals is neither sustainable nor politically feasible. via IrishTimesOpEd
Car use is not simply the prerogative of the odious and hysterical middle class. Huge numbers of people from every class depend on having a car. Only the very well-to-do middle class could afford the routine use of taxis for their daily life activities such as bringing children to creches and school, collecting kids from dances and gigs, attending sport events, doing the weekly shop, looking after elderly relatives, and collecting them for family events.
Any suggestion that public transport in the form of buses, taxis, bikes and e-scooters will suffice to sustain the entire transport needs of a vast number of people is fanciful and unrealistic. I doubt that most people would argue against planting more trees to increase shade or encouraging urban dwellers to keep beehives. Nobody is stopping anyone from rewilding their front and rear gardens.
They might like to travel in an electric car on a wet evening to a centre city cinema, theatre or music venue and be able to park their car in a convenient multistorey car park and later drop off their friends to their homes.
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