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> Housing within bicycle commuting distance (under 5 miles) in many cities is abundant Housing isn’t abundant within 50 miles of London and other similar major
by chrisseaton 5y ago
> Housing within bicycle commuting distance (under 5 miles) in many cities is abundant
Housing isn’t abundant within 50 miles of London and other similar major cities, let alone 5.
- pharmakom 5y agoConsider that a comparable amount of space is dedicated to car parking as parks in London.
- aigo 5y agoAnd there are a lot of parks and green spaces in London! The amount of on street car parking in zones 2-3 is insane. Now that actually IS a subsidy to rich people.
- barry-cotter 5y agoThat's a fact about policy choices, not something that can't be changed. If building housing wasn't illegal it would be built. Developers love money and the Green Belt is quite big enough to spare one Mnahattan's area if it was politically possible to build a Manhattan's worth of housing on it.
- chrisseaton 5y ago> That's a fact about policy choices, not something that can't be changed. Ok but now we’ve moved from ‘bicycling is relatively practical’ to ‘it’d be relatively practical if only everything about our politics and built environment was instantly completely different.’
- cjrp 5y agoIt's true, but with a folding bike your criteria for a house can now be "fewer than 5 miles away from a tube/train line" and let the public transport do the heavy lifting.