It’s almost like people driving are not the ones who have time to shop in street level shops. Nice to have some data to back it up, but it’s pretty obvious.
Yeah. While walking to the shop where you want to buy something, you see stuff and maybe buy it too.
With a car you drive to the shop, buy the thing and leave.
While I continue to believe that largely car free city centres will be more economically resilient, using data from before COVID is pointless. The way people shop and spend has changed a lot since 2018. It would be more interesting to see more recent data on this question to be able to shape future policies accordingly.
People sitting in a car don’t step into the random shop on their way. Pretty unlikely this changed.
This is not news though? This is a 6 year old article about the 2018 Christmas period. So much has changed since then.
The thing is that the misinformation that “reducing car traffic would harm business” is still being spread again and again, so it is necessary to repeat the facts.