wouldn't electric bike/scooter without renting make more sense for you? unless you use it to do big grocery, though this could be resolved by ordering grocery online
I'm living in the Prague without car, only missing car when doing the grocery, but there is no point to buy car just to do big grocery once a week, might as well rent a car or take taxi or order grocery online, if I would be that lazy.
Yes those shifts are needed, but in some cities/countries (talking Europe here for example) that has been going on already. Resulting in more parking spaces including surveillance, and police caring about bike theft (data point: my fairly normal bike has been stolen twice, and brought back by the police twice, thanks to the engraved serial number, and that was over a decade ago). Also with electric bicycles reaching price levels of small cars and becoming way more common, law enforcement gets pushed automatically towards caring, I think.
you must live in odd country, here in Czechia is felony stealing of subject with "more than insignificant value" (read more than 200EUR although last year they wanted to raise it to 400EUR, not sure if they succeeded) regardless what is the subject, so while stealing old used car valued at 199EUR is misdemeanor (contravention), stealing bike worth 300EUR is crime
I don't think they would really treat cars differently, if they are in same value as some bike worth 10000 EUR, the thing is car is much bigger so it's more difficult to hide it and easier to notice/discover than bike and statistically most of the used bikes are worth few euros, so it would be really waste of resources, of course it's different now with ebikes, but it is same as motorbikes, much easier to hide and difficult to discover
Can't comment on OP's country, but here in Germany while technically different, in practice it's the same
Car gets stolen: often the case is solved, license plates help, etc.pp
Bike gets stolen: Police take the report, often blame you it's your own fault that you didn't properly lock it (happened to me twice), usually doesn't get solved even if you have the number. It's worth the hassle to report it but the chnace of getting it back are close to zero.
> Car gets stolen: often the case is solved, license plates help, etc.pp
Are you sure stolen car is "often" found? Here in Czechia they find like 20% stolen cars, bikes will be worse but not that much worse since 20 is already quite close to 0 anyway.
Often compared to bikes. Also I have heard of it, so non-zero. ;) No, I don't have numbers. My point was strictly that with a stolen bike you're out of luck. Also because insurance is mandatory for cars, people usually take this addon that will have them pay for your stolen car. For bikes again it's complicated...
never thought of this good idea, so after all the car is not necessary even for grocery, but I guess parking would be issue unless you live in house, not that big deal to find place for ebike/escooter or leave car on street, but trailer inside?
Lots of apartment buildings have street level storage usable for bikes and trailers, eg in gated inner courtyards or dedicated bike storage rooms. But trailers are not very attractive vtargets for theft anyway because they are cheap and there aren't that many trailer users.
not where I live, people here park bikes either in their apartment or in their cellar, which is usually very small, parking it in some common area on building would be quite rude towards other residents blocking the space and nobody will dare to park bike on street overnight
I'm living in the Prague without car, only missing car when doing the grocery, but there is no point to buy car just to do big grocery once a week, might as well rent a car or take taxi or order grocery online, if I would be that lazy.