Ideas like these are all the rage all around Europe these days. The EU (and thus the EFTA) has committed to reducing passenger traffic by car and seem to think that everybody can just take a bus when ever they feel like going somewhere. They all seem to forget that our society has been based on the liberty of transportation through the use of a car, as it is by far the most effective mode of transporting yourself from A to B.

The simple fact is, yes you can make everybody ride the bus, thus stealing away precious time they can spend at work or with their family, but at the cost of a less productive society. Your job start at 7am and the kindergarden opens at 7:30am? Though luck, the politicians say. "Adapt, or we will force you to by robbing your of your spare time and\or work time". Open the kindergarden earlier, you say. Then how are the teachers supposed to get there?

All in all I think this notion that personal transportation needs to die is very idealistic and far from being realistic. The need will always be there as long as we all don't live in a mega metropolis where it would be cost effective to have public transport operate at intervals where it would prove an effective mode of transport.

Simply said, we need personal transportation in our lives. Especially so those of us who do not live in a major city. The question is however, do we need to transport ourselves and our lunch using a 5 meter long 3 ton truck? Most of us probably don't. Should we adapt more to using smaller modes of personal transportation? It would probably be beneficial, yes. Will you do it?