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I'm sure it works great in some areas, but its completely unrealistic in others. Try running errands in Metro Detroit on a bike and come back and talk to me. W
by headcanon 8y ago
I'm sure it works great in some areas, but its completely unrealistic in others. Try running errands in Metro Detroit on a bike and come back and talk to me.
With that said I would prefer if the municipalities were more bike friendly in the first place. I like driving, but I was certainly happiest when I lived in a different town and could bike to work.
- btrettel 8y agoTo reiterate a point I made in another reply, I'm not advocating for cycling here, just pointing out that driving is expensive. Also, I know an engineer who works on diesel engines in Detroit and commutes by bike. He seems to think Detroit is pretty good for cycling, actually, contrary to what I expected. Don't know about metro Detroit, though.
- headcanon 8y agoDowntown Detroit is ok for biking, certainly. The metro area though is so spread out I just don't see a realistic alternative. Sorry to jump on you like that, I agree driving is expensive but when everything in our lives is separated by dozens of miles, connected by streets where cars move at deadly speeds next to paper-thin bike lanes, its difficult to see an alternative. I'd love it if there as a pan-Southeast-Michigan light rail to happen, but doesn't seem realistic with all the other infrastructure issues Michigan is having right now. Best we can hope for right now is that Q line gets extended out from downtown Detroit up to Royal Oak or Birmingham, but even that is a whole can of worms that Dan Gilbert would have to push for for there to be a chance at it.