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[-] unknown1234_5@kbin.earth 24 points 4 months ago

car go further faster, and car more useful when not in big city.

[-] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 15 points 4 months ago

For this, bike friendly cities have good public transport (bus/tram/metro) and bike shares

[-] unknown1234_5@kbin.earth 0 points 4 months ago

Most cities aren't big enough to be bike friendly or have public transport at all, let alone good public transport (as an issue of not enough taxes to do it bc small and not enough demand for private section either).

[-] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

Small cities are super nice for biking. Where are you from?

[-] unknown1234_5@kbin.earth 1 points 4 months ago

Don't want to be too specific but I'm from a small town in east texas with ~1,300 people.

[-] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

Heard that US sucks... Seems to be true everytime. Small towns in japan are really nice for bicycles, as well as big cities. The medium ones are hit or miss

[-] unknown1234_5@kbin.earth 1 points 4 months ago

the town is half farm bro it's as dense as it can be without the local economy collapsing. not to mention the entire thing is built around the intersection of two highways so to walk anywhere you have to cross two of the most semi-truck covered highways in the state (just a consequence of position relative to several much larger cities along those highways). even if we built the infrastructure it simply wouldn't be safe and the distances would simply be too long, and considering we can't even afford to keep the schools open all 5 days (this is the actual official reason we switched to a four-day week) I doubt there is enough taxes to add any infrastructure. this is not a flaw of the US, the town is just too small (in terms of population) to support what you are talking about.

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