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If only the EU understood just how sparse the US is geographically compared to the EU they may understand why cars are such a necessity.
We are talking about walking around a city lol, not a country
Even in a lot of big us cities, most people don't live in the city. I live in a metro area with 2 million but only 300k in the city. That's 1.7 million with no public transit. Also all of the people farther out that aren't vin the metro area, no public transit. A very small percentage of people in the US have non-car options, and even where it exists it is generally terrible.
TIL the US doesn't have cities
People in the US have to travel 500km on their car every day just to go shopping, sadly nobody has figured out a way to build shops closer to the population or any sort of sharable transport.
Nope not a one. I saw a picture of some primitive form of shopping in Germany and this the US has no cities whatsoever.
Now if only there was a long range form of transportation that could move a lot of people (or goods) from one city to another. 🤔 Maybe something that was set up over 150 years ago, lets say May 10, 1869.
We can only dream, I guess. 🤷♂️
Lmao. No the US like to kill all competition and forcing you to take your car 30 minutes to go to walmart. It's often illegal in a lot of places to have a shop on the ground floor of a residential building. This is by design.
American suburbs are cancer. See also "the missing middle".
The problem is not that the US is sparse, is that cities are. You are probably misunderstanding the problem, and if not, you are not explaining correctly. Check out The Dumbest Excuse for Bad Cities from Not Just Bikes for a breakdown of the issue.
No one is blaming you individually, or even the US citizens individually. The problems are multiple for sure, but you won't start to fix it unless you understand the issue properly. Maybe it's not your case, but many US citizens are surely not seeing the point at all.
lol