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I get that it's wasteful, but I'm not going to bike 20 miles each way to commute to work. edit to be less snarky: I live in a city, so in theory there should b

I get that it's wasteful, but I'm not going to bike 20 miles each way to commute to work. edit to be less snarky: I live in a city, so in theory there should be a plethora of sustainable transportation I could take to work. but there just aren't many software jobs in my city, so I have to commute to an exurb. I could move closer to work, but then I would be even farther away from my family (which is important to me). we need more than just an infrastructure upgrade to make this work.

gombosg 7y ago
Yes. You'd (we'd) need better infrastructure (20 miles is doable via train or something) and more remote work. That's also something that will be more widespread in the coming years. Plus we need more environmental-conscious lifestyle choices from people. Where one lives is also a lifestyle choice, not an invariant. The only reason today's cities exists the way they are (huge suburbs, lots of commuting) is because they are based on car transportation, unfortunately this is pretty hard to change. See this for a historical overview: https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/08/commute-time-city-size-transportation-urban-planning-history/597055/ https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/08/commute-time-...