>>2017666>>2017667>from a technical and utilitarian perspective yes but what you are describing is just an utopia that would not work very well in real life.Lmao no, what he is describing is not at all some fanciful utopia. It's literally just how most American cities were developed by the early 1900s. Every American city, and even most small towns with 10k or more people, had extensive streetcar systems. Most of these were privately operated for profit, and were not municipal government operated transit systems like they are today. As a result, they went everywhere. In places like Detroit, St. Louis, Kansas City, Milwaukee etc...you were basically never more than a 4 or 5 block walk from the nearest streetcar stop, unless you were on the clear outskirts of the city.
In the modern day, a proper public transit system would incorporate streetcars as well as longer distance commuter rail. Pic related is a streetcar map for Kansas City in 1920, which was when the system peaked.
Every major city was like this. For bigger cities, you could ideally have a combination of streetcars with separate subways or above ground trains as well. Streetcars were great before car ownership was widespread. But they suffered because once people started buying cars, the roads had more traffic which meant the streetcar services were slower and subject to traffic issues created by cars.
That's all you would need. You don't need stuff like cable cars or gondolas except in very unique circumstances.
It's a sacrilege to say this here but if cars were banned, most cities would actually work better with a combination of streetcars and then basically like bird scooter and e-bike rental style stuff for last mile travel.
