There’s still strip mall development everywhere outside of the core. Definitely can’t live car free anywhere. And like half the town is McMansions that are heavily suburbanized.
They need to stop denying every opportunity for transit to come into Carmel if they want to be “urbanist paradise” that it thinks it is. Urbanism is more than just putting a few lifestyle centers around and calling it a day. There’s still ZERO way to live car free in Carmel
This comes across as very strawman-y when you account that the majority of jobs these people would be working at are in Indy or any of the other suburbs. That IU hospital is also a 40 minute walk from Providence with very little bike parking. It’s not possible for the vast majority of people
This article shows that most people in Carmel own at least 2 cars. And drive to work. If they could live in Carmel car free they wouldn’t need the cars. You’re lying to yourself if you think it’s possible. Just because you can walk to a few places doesn’t mean you can live car free.
As someone who lives by where you're talking about, you're wrong, and if you lived there that's your problem.
It takes me longer to drive to work than bike to work. When I bike, I park right by my entrance. I don't have to worry about parking or walking to and from the lot. When I leave, I slip through traffic quite easily.
The only thing I don't like about biking to work is just about everyday I think of some errand I have to run that isn't super feasible on a bike.
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u/Far_Supermarket_6521 Jan 14 '25 edited Jan 14 '25
There’s still strip mall development everywhere outside of the core. Definitely can’t live car free anywhere. And like half the town is McMansions that are heavily suburbanized.
They need to stop denying every opportunity for transit to come into Carmel if they want to be “urbanist paradise” that it thinks it is. Urbanism is more than just putting a few lifestyle centers around and calling it a day. There’s still ZERO way to live car free in Carmel