Personal Rapid Transit systems seem attractive, but they suffer
from the flaw that they are (for the most part) not capable of
handling extremely high population densities.
Extremely high population densities may have their own solutions.
one thing I like about CH vs. the US is that most goods and services
come to me, or at least to within 750m of me, rather than the other
way around, and I'm not even in a major city; going to extremely high
population densities would probably make it even easier to provide
goods and services within walking distance.
I think CH actually has a higher rate of car ownership than the US,
the difference is that the convenience and availability of the
alternatives* mean that it's perfectly possible to leave the car
parked for days or even weeks at a time rather than requiring daily use.
-Dave
* and perhaps lack of artificially cheap gas due to failure to
account properly for, say, expensive wars. political theme at 1 USD/
liter? it is to laugh.
