Also maybe you don’t need to get around so quickly. That’s kind of my point about how much damage the car has done to society.
Venice even had old people, pregnant people, and children! The trifecta. Rumor has it these people still roam Venice today, although in smaller numbers.
Hard to talk about public transportation without getting into statements that sound like judgments. Definitely not judging your actions. But it's not really a useful analysis to insert a particular solution midway into a situation when the solution wouldn't have allowed the situation to happen in the first place.
Not everyone is a healthy 20 year old.
Making the city center car free and making the city center motor vehicle free are not the same thing.
I commonly see people walking in all sorts of weather - rain, snow, freezing weather and sun. Proper clothing makes these things tolerable in addition to simply getting used to it. I see pregnant women walking. I regularly see mothers with young infants in strollers. I regularly see elderly folks, sometimes with canes or walkers. In fact, I did some language practice in a nursing home and somewhat regularly went for walks with a few residents. The folks that did language training in a preschool were outside daily. The elementary schools have sleds and buckets for snow.
The combination of walking and public transportation usually works out well, and you do not need to be a healthy 20-year old to deal with it.
You either have a limited definition of "quickly" or a limited definition of "around".
> Also maybe you don’t need to get around so quickly.
Or maybe you do.
> That’s kind of my point about how much damage the car has done to society.
There have been positives as well.