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Do they hate those things when traveling to European or Asian cities with those things in abundance? Or just the way those things are currently implemented in t
by ballenf 9y ago
Do they hate those things when traveling to European or Asian cities with those things in abundance? Or just the way those things are currently implemented in their home city?
In my suburban American town, there is one total bike lane on one single road in town and it's super, super annoying because it's rarely used and therefore an annoying distraction with very little positive impact. It doesn't really connect to anything or go anywhere useful.
I moved here from Munich where I rode my bike to work daily for 4 years and didn't own a car for much of the time.
I've also vacationed in Amsterdam a few times and loved renting the city bikes there. The volume of vehicle traffic there surprised me, however, and the stats in the article I think kind of downplay the feeling of the number of cars on the road there.
Point is, people's annoyance with how these things are implemented in the US is totally legitimate. They are usually half-assed bridges to nowhere kind of projects. And, yes, done that way they probably hold back real progress in implementing full-fledged viable bike/bus/rail projects. But that doesn't mean people criticizing their current form are not right.