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[–] cheers_queers@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

I'm surprised the Chicago area isn't orange/red..

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I do walk to work when I can, but right now I'm sitting here stuck because it's pouring (like it does every afternoon/evening in the summer here). If I could have brought my car, it would be waiting for me in the covered parking garage!

Getting an electric bike this month and that will let me arrive not sweaty, but it won't solve the getting home in the rain. There are actually THREE separate bus routes I can take from my house to work with about a block of walk on each end but whenever I could bus or bike I could walk, once I leave the house I never feel like spending the fare, it's only a mile.

In the other half of the year it's easy to get here without a car but only because I refuse to work anywhere that is not on a bus line and close by.

Here, the city tries but unfortunately transit is run by the county not the city.

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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's that orange paradise in the northeast coast?

[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

This is the home of car culture and it's the reason the climate change movement has seen such little traction. 80% of this problem could be solved by a decent intercity rail network combined with light rail and cycle paths in the densely populated areas. Sometimes a car is the only solution but everything looks like a nail when your only tool is a hammer.

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