I mean, it’s cool and all. As a Swiss citizen I’ve been there. But it’s a small village town living from tourists (who arrive by train).
Definitely not a model for the world, but definitely something that places with slower life and simple traffic could adopt.
What if they need to transport a load of bricks, or sand, or scaffolding?
I imagine there are more than a few loopholes in the ‘no cars’ policy.
It’s no private car ownership. If you need a load of bricks, if delivery isn’t an option, a rental might be.
That sounds lovely actually
Combine that with the fact that this town looks like it has a very slow life style, it wouldn’t be weird to have to wait a month or so for an order. Everyone probably knows each other and if there was an emergency, there would be someone nearby to help patch a roof, even if it was just throwing a tarp over it.
As a Swiss person I would like to apologize for that woman’s “English”.
There’s a good, but sadly nebula exclusive Not Just Bikes video comparing Zermatt with the notably more car friendly St. Mortiz
Nebula is amazing and I would highly encourage any urbanist to sign up for it. It’s only like $30 per year.
If they had anti clickbait policies, then maybe. Until then I look at their video feed in disgust and close the tab. I really don’t need a paid YouTube with all its garbage content.
I can’t say I disagree with you. The thumbnails and titles are sometimes a bit clickbaity. But they don’t let anyone join the site as a creator unless they have faith in the actual content of the videos. They’re creators who sometimes use clickbaity thumbnails because that’s just essential to surviving the YouTube algorithm, and the Nebula version usually just takes the same title and thumbnail from YouTube. But it’s never the sort of clickbait where a clickbaity thumbnail was used to trick you into watching actual garbage content—the content is always high quality.
I wish they’d tone it down for the Nebula version, but that’s an extra amount of work for honestly very little extra value, so I understand why they don’t.
They’re creators who sometimes use clickbaity thumbnails because that’s just essential to surviving the YouTube algorithm, and the Nebula version usually just takes the same title and thumbnail from YouTube.
Oh. So they’re often just double dipping with the same content? That’s even worse.
