The answer is we all get fitter.

People are constantly surprised at the distances I walk, sometimes
towing a 'shopping bag on wheels' to do the grocery shopping. (4km
round trip).
I don't own a car, by choice. (I just don't see the value in tying up
that sort of capital).

The common availability of cheap personal transportation has made us all soft.

I know, I'm an outlier case.

On Thu, 30 Sept 2021 at 15:30, Michael Lewis michaeldlewis999@...> wrote:
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> All very nice and wonderful. But as mentioned by you and others, Light Rail is just one component of urban transport.

>

> I wondered, after catching the relevant light rail to a connected shopping centre - the best of all stops or terminals, not like the park at Juniors, how do I

> push my loaded shopping trolley from Coles (my own - not their's) , let's say, 500m to a waiting Light rail, load it on, gracefully travel to the nearest >= 500m spaced stop, unload the trolley

> and then push in to my residence which is say, 750 metres away?

>

> I think I do it by driving to the centre, parking underneath and driving back home.

>

> The mix of private and public with massive increase of population, yet almost no increase in local roads and the fact that what works with public in peak is inappropriate for most other purposes, is a dilemma.

> And the answer is not, to ban cars. We're all experiencing what Lockdown is.

>

> Maybe the answer is to build more cities?

>

>

> I

> On Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 1:05:55 PM UTC+10gregsut...@... wrote:

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>>

>> https://www.aurecongroup.com/thinking/thinking-papers/light-rail-future-public-transport

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