Originally Posted by
gerv
I'm kind of surprised this article ran in a Minneapolis newspaper. Reason is that it's already pretty "old hat". It's gotta be a slow day even here in Des Moines before the local paper runs another "carfree" story.
There was a lot of pertinent information in the article though.. so a newbie could learn a thing or two.
I'm hopeful that in another few years, this phenomenon will be so common, nobody will run such a story.
The news stories have gotten better. A few years ago they were all the same: The editor told a young reporter to go without her car for a few days and report whimsically about the experience. The reporter didn't want to do it, didn't know how to do it, and didn't even believe it was possible. So of course the carfree experiment was a failure, and the whimsical conclusion was always the same: "Maybe they don't need cars in Europe or New York City, but here in Podunk (or wherever) we need our cars and we're never going to give them up."