Posted on 03/30/2024 3:40:44 PM PDT by dennisw
John-Robert Rodríguez moved to Culdesac, a car-free community in Arizona, in October 2023.
He's never liked driving and believes that fewer cars can foster more community. Life at Cudesac is great, but he still has to deal with the car-dependent world outside its gates.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with John-Robert Rodríguez, 24, a teacher in Tempe, Arizona, who lives in the car-free community Culdesac. Rodríguez moved to Culdesac, which has about 150 residents so far but will eventually house 1,000 residents in 760 units, in October 2023 from Pflugerville, Texas, after growing up in Florida. The conversation was edited for length and clarity.
I heard about Culdesac when it was still in development. I went for a tour in August of 2023, and it looked just like the mockups. It looked just like how the community said it was going to look all those years ago.
I don't drive. I have a license, but I don't drive.
I moved in October.
When you start removing the dependency on cars, you start seeing more people. When you go to a city, the more cars that you see on the road, the fewer people you'll see on the sidewalks. People need to be out and about in order to build the community.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Well, duh.
I skimmed through the whole thing. He seems to be a true believer. It seems he is renting there in this 15 minute city of his dreams.
I’ve lived here almost 30 yrs and never heard of this community.
Great another chicken coop.
My Maserati does 185
I lost my license
Now I don't drive
Just dreamy! John-Robert sounds like a homo.
Sounds like a 15 minute city to me.
The Drone is droning on
May like a nursing home even more? Won’t have to leave the building?
Watch. Pretty soon he will be too paralyzed with fear to venture out. This place will be his safe place.
looks like a fire trap to me.
Hard pass.
The light rail is full of homeless ppl who ride all day long to relieve their boredom and hardly the place for single women or families to congregate. What will he do when he decides to settle down and have kids? And has he actually spent a summer here? Walking is fine here for 6 months out of the year, lol.
There are times and situations where I do enjoy not needing a car - like when I stay occassionally in Manhattan for a few days, but that by itself, in time, is limiting without a car. And when useful the greatest part of having the car is setting your own timetable and not limited or restricted by plane or train or bus schedules, as well as, unlike all three of those, getting total point A to point B transport by that single mode - the car.
However, the year around population is about 600. The summer visitors like to visit but they do not stay.
Which is what happens.
Didn't read much further than that.
Why?
Saw it was MSN so, I’ll offer an alternative again to avoid clicks. Especially since the article said basically nothing except how Culdesac is a walkable/car free community and he dislikes cars. Just various ways of saying it over and over again.
Here’s a video of Culdesac if anyone is interested in seeing this no car community.
2 minute video https://youtu.be/NXQJqUdM6PY?si=uDXJAxhAHunqrvPp
Longer video https://youtu.be/hf0L3blkNA4?si=UzSkXEu1pN5IlgFO
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