In one recent study progonstiziert the future Institute, that the cultural model of mass Motorisation is coming to the end. Given the car - once the epitome of freedom and individual mobility - finds it increasingly to its limits. But what look like the alternatives? In Germany, especially in large cities, Yes actually quite well. In other countries tend not. However, there are people too, You have no driver's license.
In Canada I Jennifer Santos met. The Mitt Dreißigerin is Director of public relations & Brand strategy at Canadian Rocky Mountain Resorts and has no driver's license. She lives and works in Calgary, Alberta, is often also between your business sites on the go, They lie partly in the Canadian wilderness (see image below). How she manages her life without a car?
Too old for the driver's license
Jennifer is originally from Toronto. “Very few have a car there. Therefore, I never saw a reason, Driver's license to make.” After graduation but she got a job in British Columbia – and found surprised: “Here no one without a car comes out!”
What to do? Jennifer decided, however, the driver's license to make: “Actually I felt too old to do so and have had it,” She explained. “Most young people, here work, have no car. You come to somehow, There is also a shuttle bus to the airport, You can call the.”
Alternatives to driving
Course, It is to, was assigned to always, to be picked up. But the existence of führerscheinlose has its advantages: “I go much more than people on foot, have a car!” By the way I have met the führerscheinlosen travel blogger Jools stone in Canada, Consequently a Travel blog operates.
In fact, public transport in Canada are rather poorly constructed. In the large cities there are of course, Dana also there are buses. And of course aircraft, the relatively most practical means of transport represent in a country of this size. The train service is comparatively poorly developed.
Rail tickets – uncommon in Canada
As it comes to the relationship between traffic – Traffic in Canada is ordered, that everything on the road, little on the Rails, shows a view from CN Tower in Toronto:
How paradox can also be the use of cars in Canada, shows the example of the Northern Canadian town Churchill, known for their polar bear tourism: No roads lead into the city. However, every resident there a car – the cars have been linked to the trains to the city.
Sponsor: The research on this post has been made possible by the
Canadian Tourism Commission, paid travel expenses and accommodation. Thank you!
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