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There are considerably more people today than there were before cars, so it's hard to say how wide the roads would need to be if we could make bicycles, public
by rootusrootus 3y ago
There are considerably more people today than there were before cars, so it's hard to say how wide the roads would need to be if we could make bicycles, public transit, and walking a functional equivalent for cars.
- ajuc 3y agoWe don't have to guess. Netherlands has 500 people per km2. USA has 36. Road that connects 3 biggest cities in Netherlands has 3 lanes in each direction: https://www.google.com/maps/@52.1822053,4.5947627,3a,75y,47.43h,68.18t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjWbzg1ULl7plGJgQdewN-A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/@52.1822053,4.5947627,3a,75y,47.... Your average road in Netherlands looks like this: https://www.google.com/maps/@52.1968565,4.592548,3a,75y,58.84h,70.23t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sJErVQHv6sBE0By1yjRNClw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DJErVQHv6sBE0By1yjRNClw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D170.54272%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/@52.1968565,4.592548,3a,75y,58.8... You cannot directly translate between countries with such difference in population density obviously, but if anything - the more people USA has - the bigger gains are there to be realized by switching to more efficient mode of transport.