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  • Stop Being in the Wrong Place

    The transit problem becomes a stasis problem
  • Founder: Empiricus

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  • Who We Need
    Transportation junkies, people who'd rather not commute, agorophobes
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    • The problem isn't that we need fuel to go somewhere else, the problem is that we aren't already in the right place to begin with.  If we were already in the right place, then we wouldn't need to go somewhere else, and we'd have no need for fuel, automobiles, congestion, transit systems, airplanes, etc.
    • Of course, people naturally adopt this idea, often minimizing transit time by changes to lifestyle, employment, and home location.  I personally know a couple that factored traffic into their decision to have children, for instance. By looking at the problem systematically from the "wrong place" perspective, we can make changes that reduce energy use, anthropogenic climate change, traffic congestion, disease vectors, personal stress. and accident rates, while increasing opportunities for local interdependence,
    • Jobs, shopping, schools, culture, services.  In each case, we can decide to bring those things to where we are, or we can move to be nearer to them.  In the internet age we might not have to travel much; we can bring everything to us.  Alternately, we might instead move to a "center" that has the things we need.  In either case, we've stopped being in the wrong place.
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    • THE IMPORTANCE OF NEIGHBORS -- it seems to me that we would go a long way to being in the right place if we knew our neighbors better and enjoyed interacting with them. I work from home 4 days out of 5 a week, and there can be a strong sense of social isolation. During the peak oil crisis of 2007 (aka "World Without Oil") I discovered that my biggest need for transit was social -- to see friends and family to offset how much time I spend along working from home! To my chagrin I realized I barely had a single casual friend within walking distance! I used that peak oil year to strengten my relationship with neighbors, and it has lowered my transit needs considerably. Neighborhood ad hoc offices -- think, working at the coffee house without the commercial setting -- are another good way to leverage neighbors as co-workers. - POSTED BY AVANT GAME
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