Transportation

One of the most wasteful, unsustainable aspects of modern society is the daily use of private gasoline-powered automobiles.

The NewVistas community eliminates the use of automobiles for most purposes while providing convenient, more healthful, and more sustainable alternatives.

Distances within a NewVistas community are easily walkable, with only about two miles of walking distance separating the opposite corners of the community’s neighborhood grid area.

Residents will be encouraged to walk, bike, jog, or skate to get from place to place whenever possible, both for the sake of health and sociability and for energy efficiency.

Options will be provided for transportation both outdoors and within enclosed breezeways that are protected from the weather.

Gasoline-powered vehicles are not allowed within the NewVistas community. Instead, electric MULEs can be rented for short-term use or leased long-term.

Mules take up less energy and space while massively reducing noise and air pollution, two of the banes of modern city life. Large items and bulk goods can also easily be moved around the community by mules, using trailers and pallets as needed.

The network of breezeways provides transportation access throughout the community. A breezeway is 24 feet wide, and is divided into three parts. the first part, closest to the apartment building, is for two-way pedestrian traffic, featuring two 4-foot lanes. The middle lane is for skating, jogging, while the outer lane is for mule traffic and cycling.

Loading and unloading in each building is done from the podium floor, rather than on the breezeway, preventing obstruction of traffic.

The breezeway’s transparent walls with doors on the street side are designed to provide a pleasant view and easy access to the street area.

At the same time, the breezeways will be climate-controlled so residents don’t have to worry about rain, snow, ice, cold, pollen, heat, or humidity.

Pedestrian traffic will move in both directions in the breezeway.

However, traffic for bicycles, skating, and MULEs will all be one-way, as shown in the diagram below. Each hub will be surrounded by breezeways. Even using the one-way lanes, any location within the community should be less than three miles travel distance from any other location in the community.

For travel outside the community, residents will be able to rent vehicles as desired or use larger public-transportation networks.

Air transport is extensively used. Instead of large aircraft, the community will employ smaller airplanes, carrying around a dozen passengers. There will not be large airports for community use, with smaller helipads and airstrips being used.