No car allowed

[Testdriving]

What if no car was allowed on any road in the country for, say one week? It would surely help much with cleaning our environment, but do you think one week would be too long?

 

[Road_Runner]

I think it will be impossible. Just think of the doctors, police and other essential workers. They can't stay away from their house for a whole week, and not all of them live close to their work. Some of them have a schedule that makes it impossible to take public transportation.

However, I am pretty sure that mother earth would appreciate even one hour of zero car pollution.

 

[Wayne]

I would really love to see more high speed rail systems put into place that use clean technology. I think that's the wave of the future, and I would welcome it.

 

[MaximumSpeed]

Yeah, there's no way we could ever get rid of all driving for a week, unless some sort of EMP made driving impossible - and that would be close to being an apocalypse or something! LOL

 

[Sweet16]

I would totally DIE if I couldn't drive for a whole week! Driving is awesome! My mom let me drive to school today (I'm in computer lab LOL) and I hope she'll let me drive home, too!

 

[Testdriving]

OK, I think it would be too long also. RR you have a better idea. I think it's more practicable to manage an hour without your car (say every week) than to manage a week without it.

 

[Buyer]

Not only would it not be feasible, it wouldn't help anything anyway. As soon as the time was over, everyone would go back to their cars and their old ways.

 

[bennies]

No one would get to school, no one would get to work, emergency staff would be screwed to help someone in need. I see where you are going with this and I am all for saving when you can, but something like this could cripple a country too.

 

[MyMotor]

People would get to work, and to school if public transport were sufficiently good. However it isn't, and as stated we would struggle with emergency transportation. Auto transport is too deeply ingrained in our culture.

 

[Mustard]

I think we only have to look at how things were 100 years ago to see how this would play out. Those with access could use horses, or we could ride bikes. But yes, if the ban were complete, then emergency services would be hard hit.

 

[Brent]

Actually I love the idea of using horses (or carriages) to commute. They can be a greener alternative to fossil fueled cars, but I don't think they are a cheaper alternative to the cars.