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€58 a month for all local/regional public transport is very cheap. Where I am, in another part of western Europe, a single-region ticket is normally ~30-50% more expensive than the all-of-Germany ticket.
It is subsidized. Through taxes you pay the full prize anyways. Just that someone else than you who decides, what do with your money, like subsidized public transport.
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I think you are totally off. Never lived in Paris but I lived in Barcelona for many years, during the transformation to be more car-hostile and bikes and pedestrians friendly. I spent there my 20s-30s and left when I had a family but due to (public) school scarcity in our neighborhood and rent prices. But mobility was not the issue at all. It was actually a pleasure bring my daughter to her kindergarten by bike and t…
Barcelona is in Spain, on the Mediterranean, where the weather is fair all year long. It's not the case in many parts of the world. Bicycles are a rather dangerous mode of transportation, and I wouldn't use it with kids, especially in a city.
Bicycle commuting is extremely safe if cyclists are accounted for by the infrastructure designers. It’s a statistical fact that’s true across the world, even the USA. BTW, check what’s the leading cause of children death in the States.
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I already said as much. Here's the quote from above: > You can't, because there is no such city.
Waiting to be proven wrong with a counter example, shouldn't be so hard, to find at least one, instead of answering me with useless words.
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People usually don't live in the suburbs by choice, they get pushed there by the higher classes that can afford the city. People in Spain live in the suburbs by choice.
As someone that grew up between Portugal and Spain, you can only be joking, by choice!, thanks for making my day. Unless you mean those CEOs of construction companies, and offshore factories, with their villas and high powered sports cars. I really would have liked my parents had such a "choice"!