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People in US suburbs frequently live several miles from their town center, if they even have a town center at all. Cycling simply isn’t viable to large swaths

People in US suburbs frequently live several miles from their town center, if they even have a town center at all. Cycling simply isn’t viable to large swaths of the US. There isn’t an easy answer to this either, given that you’d probably need to tear down entire neighborhoods and rebuild a more dense town

Zigurd 2y ago
E-bikes fix most of those problems. A 10 mile trip, out and back, at 20mph, with no concern for loss of momentum at stop signs and lights is easily do-able by anyone who doesn't need mobility aids.
- dnadler 2y ago
  That fixes it for certain types of people, but certainly not for most people in in the north east during winter.
  - Zigurd 2y ago
    Most of the sprawl in America is not in the northeast. E-bikes are perfect for US suburbs.
jeffbee 2y ago
> People in US suburbs frequently live several miles from their town center It is not the responsibility of the citizens of the central city to accommodate suburban drivers.
- PaulHoule 2y ago
  In that case all the retail will go out to the suburbs and they’ll lose the jobs and have to drive out to the suburbs to go shopping. Or just lose the jobs to AMZN warehouses even further away.
  - jeffbee 2y ago
    That is clearly not inevitable which you can demonstrate to yourself by glancing around and pretty much any city on earth.
- dnadler 2y ago
  Well, commutes into a central city is a bit of different beast, and many metros in the US have trains that service the suburbs. Driving in and around the suburbs is what I was talking about.