Link: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/a-researcher-asked-10-people-to-go-car-free-for-20-days-none-wanted-to-continue-20260318-p5oo1d.html

Article about an experiment from Brisbane, Australia.

This is a bat shit premise. Why not focus on reducing dependency. Not just surprise! you can't live your current existence without a car!

I live in Brisbane and don't own a car or drive (by choice). But because I don't own a car, and never have, I have never lived somewhere where it's an issue. There are plenty of places in the city that don't have useful or easy connections...

Yeah I haven't driven to work since COVID. We have WFH. I take transit into the city a few times a year. The time I had to drive into work to exchange a monitor, I hated it. I couldn't believe I was doing that daily before.

That was sorta the intended result here, to emphasize that to move away from cars without heavily sacrificing their QOL, most people need better public transportation and non-car options than their city is currently providing them. So the city needs to make changes to reduce dependency.

lived on the Good Coast over Covid. sold our car, rented the two car parks in our apartment complex, covered the cost of our body corporate fees and more. Walked, cycled, tram, train and bus where super easy. My GF used her electric scooter to get to work. Was awesome.

sure,, but we deliberately chose a place we didn't need a car, across the road from Harbour town on the Good Coast, never had an issue with traffic. A friend chose to live in bumfuck on the other side of the Freeway and complained endlessly about traffic.