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Lucky you but perhaps everyone's situation is different?? I used to bike to work (city) but now I can't afford to live within a reasonable biking distance of my current job (not city) so I drive. Thankfully it's only twice a week but I also have family, friends, and hobbies....most of which are out of biking range....
I WISH I could go back to using my bike for everything but I can't so I hate the stupid "I do it so clearly everyone can" mindset so much of the anti-car crowd seems to have.
They didn't say that everyone can ditch their car.
A significant amount of people could though.
I also hate the "it only works in cities" line that I hear all the time. I have never lived in a city.
That's fair but it's still significantly less doable outside of the city in the US. Most of our towns sprawl, they're built for cars. Residential is far from the office parks and those office parks are surrounded by 4-6 lane roads with no bike lanes. I feel lucky to have found a place with a bikeable a grocery store.
It's bad and I hate it but that's reality for most people.
What town needs a 6 lane road, how terrible are your road engineers?
"Need" is irrelevant when they already exist and aren't going away any time soon.
But as for why it was built: it's a busy business town. Residential is all in the south (away from the highway and major roads) and the north is almost entirely offices, hotels, restaurants, and a giant mall.
It's my second least favorite suburb but I don't have much of a choice but to work here unless I completely change careers. The only viable competitor is in the same town.
Is that highway as in motorway, rather than just any road? I presume that is just a difference in American/English. The very idea of having one of those in a town is insanity.
They're often called 'stroads' or street-roads.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroad
I have heard of those but assumed it was just in major cities. They don't exist here.
Yes. And I'm not sure why you think it's insane when that's how it is basically everywhere in the world they're built lol
No, no it isnt. Motorways go around towns, not through them.
Yes. And that's true in the case I'm describing as well. I feel like you're being deliberately obtuse.