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This is a common thought on this but I grew up and have lived in mostly California suburbs and it's pretty easy to be within biking distance to things (1-2 mile
by bcrosby95 2y ago
This is a common thought on this but I grew up and have lived in mostly California suburbs and it's pretty easy to be within biking distance to things (1-2 miles).
People talk about the dangerous cars but they were there 40 years ago and my friends and I would bike to school, the mall, or into the hills surrounding us.
My 9 year old's friend lives just two blocks from us and her parents don't let her walk here alone. When I was that age we were riding our bikes for miles in car infested San Jose.
- uoaei 2y agoThis experience is so far from being accessible to a typical resident of the US, what exactly are your motivations for framing it as "shrug there's no issue with urban planning"?
- bcrosby95 2y agoMy experience is consistent with what I've seen in two major US metros: LA and the SF bay area. I never called them great urban planning but hyperbole does nothing to convince people something needs to be done - it just makes you out as someone to ignore because there's already more legitimate arguments vying for our attention than we could address in a lifetime.
- dangus 2y agoI don't know if you realize how much the built enviornment has been changed in 40 years. Some of those roads you biked on have probably been widened. Cars have gotten faster, larger, and heavier. Speed limits have increased. I'm not saying it's guaranteed to be dramatically different but I think there probably is some kind of difference. Just look at the pedestrian deaths chart for the past 5-10 years or so.
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