Life Without Cars

I fail to see how this 8hr a day thing works. If you work longer or shorter hours, you can still commute without driving. Quite a few people do this in London already. It also doesn't lack flexibility either. Cars are perfectly accessible on the edge of the suburb. This isn't a gated community that you can't leave ever. If you want to go to visit some relatives you either walk/cycle the relatively short distance to the parking area and drive from there. On top of that, you never have to get stressed because your neighbours are throwing a party and you can't get your car out because you're boxed in. I'm not sure how you picture Vauban but it is just a small suburb on the edge of a medium sized city, not some vast, car free connurbation.

I think you seem to have misunderstood me. I was referring to people having many and or different jobs. Maybe one is part time and requires is too unrealistic a car. As I've said I can only see this setup suiting people who are office and retail workers and all they do is their basic job and maybe hobby, it's encouraging the increased specialization of people and their jobs, a narrowing of minds, resulting in people having to buy in everything increasing the consumerist society. I can't be arsed to explain why and how I think all these things are linked by typing them up but would be happy to meet and talk about it sometime.

One of the other problems I have with this setup is not the reduce car use in the small town, as I've said before I'm all for reduced car use, it's the make owning a car difficult, it's the not allowing you to have a garage or park even one car at your house, a restriction of one car per household I could buy but not zero. Cars are not a inherently bad form of transport, it's misuse of cars that is the bad point, like wise car ownership is not inherently bad by the same token.

The design of the suburb can make it extremely difficult to to get around by car and hence push people to use bikes walking and public transport without putting the cars in out of the way car parks. The cars will still have to be driven back to people houses anyway to pack before they go on any long journey. Why not just allow one car out side / on each property and a edge of town car park for any extra cars? It makes no sense you double traffic flow down residential streets by having external parking. The idea behind this setup is basically good but the execution is not quite there.