I'm not sure if the average European city, or the city/town the average European lives in, is smaller or larger than in the US (in terms of population). I live

I'm not sure if the average European city, or the city/town the average European lives in, is smaller or larger than in the US (in terms of population). I live in Berlin, with the population only slightly smaller than Los Angeles, and about 30% of the people regularly use bikes. Almost all trips I take somehow come out to about 4-6km, or 20 to 30min. L.A. isn't even that much larger (1300km^2 to 900km^2). But anecdotally it seems to me like long commutes across metro regions are far more common? As for blue-collar workers, I just recently saw a local plumber had switched to one of those cargo bikes. He said he had customers mostly within a 2x2km area, and was spending 20% of his days searching for parking spaces before.