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I grew up in a town with nearly double that in population, and if you didn’t have a car you were screwed. Barely any public transportation to speak of besides a
by melq 7y ago
I grew up in a town with nearly double that in population, and if you didn’t have a car you were screwed. Barely any public transportation to speak of besides an inadequate amount of bus routes that ran far too infrequently. Most of the major shopping and commercial areas don’t even have sidewalks on the streets. Only the relatively small downtown area could be considered pedestrian friendly and that area provides very few jobs comparatively.
- mulmen 7y agoI grew up in a town that is actually on the list of urban areas at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_urban_areas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_urban_ar... and is much like you describe but it does have a (very limited) public transit system. By my understanding of "Urban Area" it is possible to have a town over 50,000 people that is not an Urban Area. https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/reference/GARM/Ch12GARM.pdf https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/reference/GARM/Ch12GARM.pdf