Imagine a car free city?
What would the air smell like?
How stress free would the citizens be?
What would the infrastructure savings amount to - roads, sewers, buildings, air conditioning, all suffering less damage from vibration and pollution?
The tiny state of Luxembourg thinks it may have the solution - free buses.
IMO the solution is BAN THE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE and vehicle has four or more passengers.
Sewers are for rain run off so that the city doesn't flood. They also carry waste out of the city. They are needed whether personal transportation is there or not.
I believe the point being made was not that sewers would be unnecessary, but that they would need less maintenance since they would not be constantly vibrated by traffic running over them and covering the roads with noxious corrosive chemical which when washed in to said sewers also damages them.
@LenHazell53 thanks Len for explaining that. This issue became very apparent when I stood 100 metres from the local railway line and felt the ground shake under my feet every time a goods train went past. That led me to consider the ultimate damage of the vibration which is largely not acknowledged because of the question of damages arising and failure to ascertain true costs.
Stress free? The times I've used public transport here in Atlanta, i got catcalled, whistled at, propositioned, and a young man sat next to me and began touching himself. Stress free my ass.
If he wasn't touching you why should you be stressed by his enjoyment of his body?
As for wolf whistles etc.why are you not able to accept such compliments without them stressing you? The same with propositions?
I am reminded of the fact that as I have aged, become more absent minded and developed a paunch I no longer see my trouser
zipper. In this prurient god bothering neighbourhood I have never ever had so many people come and tell me that my zipper is not fastened. I am astonished and can only surmise all these women and men are going around crutch watching. I know whether zipped or unzipped I'm not indecent as I wear flyless boxer shorts underneath and these days certainly do not have erections in public. I couldn't give a brass razoo whether I'm zipped or not but am developing the response "oh, is my penis hanging out?" to find out how many are actually seeing it.
The only days that London hits its targets for clean air is when London Transport go on strike and there are no buses and everyone takes their cars into London...
luxembourg is an independent nation, not a state.