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Here in the UK, if I had to travel 'just 4km' then I wouldn't take a car. In any case it's the other 50% of journeys that are 4km+ (20% of journeys are 10+ mile

Here in the UK, if I had to travel 'just 4km' then I wouldn't take a car. In any case it's the other 50% of journeys that are 4km+ (20% of journeys are 10+ miles) that are the problem: https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1230-march-21-2022-more-half-all-daily-trips-were-less-three-miles-2021 https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1230-marc... The USA is a young country, built from the ground up around the automobile. Undoing that both physically and psychologically is just not possible in my opinion.

rootusrootus 3y ago
The UK is smaller than Oregon. It's really not an ideal comparison.
- amrocha 3y ago
  Doesn't matter how big it is, nobody lives in "Oregon" the same way nobody lives in "The UK". People live in communities, cities, towns. You can build a human scale town in Oregon just as well as you can in the UK.