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US having a first place looks strange given how car-centric it's culture is.
by wetpaws 7y ago
US having a first place looks strange given how car-centric it's culture is.
- david-gpu 7y agoThe figures are not per-capita. That's why.
- yellowapple 7y agoThe US has a lot of small cities/towns, where it's arguably easier to implement this sort of thing, even by accident. The US also has a lot of old cities/towns (or sections thereof) untouched by the World Wars, and thus having missed out on the "opportunity" to rework things for cars without having to demolish perfectly good and usable (and now historic) buildings. There are also quite a few golf course / country club / equestrian / etc. communities where there's some other mode of transportation (e.g. golf carts or horses) that's common enough to make car access less necessary.
- vinay427 7y agoOne thing I was thinking of are university campuses, which tend to be more often be localized (not spread among a larger city) in the US. I'm sure there are some in European countries but I haven't seen it yet and I'm a student here. In most of these types of campuses that I've been to in the US, the main streets within the campus are therefore closed to non-essential car traffic.