Living car free

This is an interesting article from the Financial Times about living car-free in Europe, Frankfurt to be specific. While I certainly agree that it’s a lot easier to live car-free in Europe than it is in the US, here in the Northeast it’s quite possible to live car free as well, as I did for quite some time when I lived in Center City Philadelphia. Indeed, the only time I really missed having a car was when I needed to visit friends in the suburbs, many of whom were also reachable by rail.

Increasingly, services like PhillyCarShare and ZipCar have solved that problem, too, making cars available throughout the city on a per hour basis. A car-free lifestyle in the US is quite possible, as long as you live in one of the country’s older, more densely populated cities.