Throughout the rich world, the young are falling out of love with cars
There&#x27;s 138 trains per day between Amsterdam and The Hague.  It&#x27;s faster to take the train than to drive on that trip.  Driving in either city in an exercise in frustration.  Why would anyone in a rich country with a high functioning rail system like The Netherlands want to drive?<p>I don&#x27;t know how many rich countries that describes, but I lived happily for years in Boston in the USA without a car.  I have one now but only because I have an off-street parking space for it.  Otherwise I&#x27;d go back to renting one on the ~monthly occasions I want to use one.  The main benefit of Zipcar to me versus owning is that the car <i>had a parking space</i> that it went back into.<p>Now if only the mass transit system in the area wasn&#x27;t falling apart and the rail connections to other cities were even half as good as the ones in the Netherlands.