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I live ~5 minutes from my work, but unless I want to walk/bike on the shoulder of a road where people are regularly going 60mph I have no option besides driving. And i live in a small town, must be even worse for medium/large sized cities
Not in places where they build proper roads/infrastructure. Generally this gets better the larger the city is, not worse.
Your situation sounds terrible but your local jurisdiction could choose to fix it. If enough people advocate for it, it will happen.
How many are built for bikes/walking and not cars? All i see are parking lots on top of parking lots all over the goddamn country
Definitely a lot of work yet to be done, but in my experience most reasonably sized cities are at least beyond the “share lanes with cars on the highway” stage of things. That’s a pretty low bar.
Most towns/cities here in the Netherlands are
I'd love to see them, too bad I'm trapped in the US
I work 25min by foot from home, and while most of it is by busy carcentric streets, I can walk a bit through a park.
If I drive a car I can get there in 10 minutes or 15-20 in a rush hour.
I can ride a bike (my own or a city bike that's free for under 15min) in 13min.
Or I can either take a bus (25min) or a tram (around 30, because I need to walk further but less than a straight walk.
I actively refuse to move to any "cheaper" new suburbs because then I would have to sit in a car for 80 minutes no matter how I feel about it that day.
Petition the city to change that. Have them add protected pedestrian routes in that area.
It is not a city, we are barely a town. It is not realistic with the way buildings are spaced, most people would need to walk dozens of miles to get anywhere they needed to get to.
Sounds like even more reason to talk to the people in charge.
It definitely IS realistic. You just would have less space for cars.