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>I did not advocate for denser housing.

I thought you did when you said this

> build out public transport such as buses, trams or subways to replace individual transportation.

Denser housing is a prerequisite for this?

> I advocate for strengthening rural areas

rural areas with trams, buses and subways?



> Denser housing is a prerequisite for this?

No it's not. Not by far. That's just to get cars out of already existing dense urban areas because as long as you take aboveground space for parking cars, you can't plant trees there, and massive amounts of cars in relatively small spaces produce really nasty local emission concentrations.

> rural areas with trams, buses and subways?

Suburbs can be perfectly well served by buses, connecting to train stations that in turn connect to larger agglomerations. The idea is to have a dense enough mesh so that almost no one needs a car for their day-to-day individual transportation needs. Employment-related transportation (such as farmers, tradespeople and the likes) is obviously going to need dedicated vehicles even in the future, but the primary goal is to get the 80% [1] of individual transport made using cars down to as close to 0 as possible because that's where the masses are made.

[1] https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/daten/verkehr/fahrleistungen-...


> Suburbs

you were talking about rural areas not suburbs . Back to the topic you bought up

> strengthening rural areas

> build out public transport such as buses, trams or subways to replace individual transportation.

Explain how this would work.




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